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I’ve only ever learned two assembly languages: 6502 (when I was in elementary school in the early 80s) and 370 (my senior year of high school when I had access
by dhosek 2y ago
I’ve only ever learned two assembly languages: 6502 (when I was in elementary school in the early 80s) and 370 (my senior year of high school when I had access to the UIC mainframe thanks to taking night classes there). I can roughly follow the output of godbolt on those rare occasions that I’m curious enough to bother, but the complexity of modern CPUs and computer architectures are such that I don’t know that I really need to deal with assembly language now. That said, my mental model of how a computer works at a low level is very much based on how the Apple II was set up.
- WhitneyLand 2y agoSame, learned as a kid. What was your motivation? Mine was wanting to make games and hitting the performance wall in basic.
- kstrauser 2y agoThat's what did it for me, too. The magazines at the time said that if you wanted to make your game run faster, you had to write parts of it in assembly. I was fortunate that no one told me that was supposed to be harder. I just knew that it was different, and it never occurred to me to be leery of it.
- dhosek 2y agoPretty much all kids want to write games.