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| Assemblers culdev1!drw@eddie.mit.edu (1987-12-23) |
| Re: Assemblers harvard!rutgers!hao!scicom!qetzal!upba!ugn!mcmi!de (1987-12-24) |
| Re: Assemblers ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU!unisoft!gethen!farren (1987-12-26) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 26 Dec 87 04:43:49 GMT |
| References: | <816@ima.ISC.COM> |
| From: | ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU!unisoft!gethen!farren (Michael J. Farren) |
| Organization: | Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland |
In article <816@ima.ISC.COM> watmath!looking!brad (Brad Templeton) writes:
>The list is shrinking, but we should still remember that today, in terms
>of customer demand, most software is written in assembler.
Considering software technology solely as a function of total units sold
of particular programs is highly misleading. All of the examples you have
given of best-selling software written in assembler were designed to run on
8-bit machines, specifically the Z-80/8080 and the 8088 of the IBM PC. For
these machines, efficient HLLs either are not, or were not (Lotus, MS-DOS),
available.
If and when compilers of sufficient efficiency become available, as they
are beginning to for the IBM PC, I would expect the use of assembler-
only coding to drop significantly. I doubt, for example, that the
same analysis, if made in five years, would show the same results.
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Michael J. Farren | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate
unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa | Tom Reingold, from alt.flame
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