Comments on: On the Virtues of Assembler http://www.zanfar.com/2009/the-virtues-of-assembler/ The Ramblings of an OCD Engineer Sun, 01 May 2011 04:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kenji Yamamoto http://www.zanfar.com/2009/the-virtues-of-assembler/#comment-6 Kenji Yamamoto Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:05:12 +0000 http://www.zanfar.com/?p=56#comment-6 I couldn't agree more, pointers and assembler go hand in hand. Pointers are extremely valuable, especially if you are doing low level hardware or embedded code where you can't handle the overhead of pushing data structures to the stack. I couldn't agree more, pointers and assembler go hand in hand. Pointers are extremely valuable, especially if you are doing low level hardware or embedded code where you can't handle the overhead of pushing data structures to the stack.

]]> By: Leah Shanker http://www.zanfar.com/2009/the-virtues-of-assembler/#comment-5 Leah Shanker Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:44:20 +0000 http://www.zanfar.com/?p=56#comment-5 I completely agree with you: it wasn't until I took CS200 (Assembly & Architecture) where I felt I could *actually* speak to a computer. It even made me a better high-level programmer! When you have to manage the stack manually, it's so true that you'll never forget it. But even now that I really understand pointer arithmetic, I still really hate it and think it should be abstracted away :)  I completely agree with you: it wasn't until I took CS200 (Assembly & Architecture) where I felt I could *actually* speak to a computer. It even made me a better high-level programmer! When you have to manage the stack manually, it's so true that you'll never forget it.

But even now that I really understand pointer arithmetic, I still really hate it and think it should be abstracted away :)  

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