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Assembler is so liberal that you have to be deeply conservative in order to write code for it.
by abrahamsen 14y ago
Assembler is so liberal that you have to be deeply conservative in order to write code for it.
- zaptheimpaler 14y agoExactly! I think assembly language falls through the cracks in this way of classification - languages themselves can be liberal/conservative, and the communities using them can be liberal/conservative. In the majority of cases, these two will be aligned. But in assembly code, there are a lot of different ways to screw things up (batshit liberal purely based on the risk profile of the language), so if you want code that works, you need to be extremely risk averse (conservative) from the outset.