On 17/04/2018 10:36, Jan Panteltje wrote:> To me asm is a high level
language....
Right on, brother!

> However, since things simply move on, it all went with the garbage one day.

The last remaining vestige of my 1973 computer went that way
a couple of years ago. It was the aluminium front panel and had
only survived because it had been built in as the floor of the
bridge going across the pond for my 16mm narrow gauge garden
railway!

> If he really wants to see registers etc in ARM then there are cool
disassemblers,
> you can get gcc to output asm too.

But that requires the complexity of the display; no good if there's
something amiss with the I/O driving the display.

> These days for the simplest things bloated code is written using bloated
languages
> by people that have no clue of the hardware, or even how a computer works.
> I really do think some ASM hardware embedded programming should be required
for programmers.
> It would save a lot of energy consumption and cost, reduce glowballworming.

Beats me how some claiming to be computer science graduates have
no idea of how a computer works!

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