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"10-12 years ago I was hearing people say that exact same thing about asm when I was first learning C" Learning assembly does teach you quite a bit. I think th
by plinkplonk 18y ago
"10-12 years ago I was hearing people say that exact same thing about asm when I was first learning C"
Learning assembly does teach you quite a bit. I think that at some point every programmer would benefit greatly from knowing (an) assembly language and C.
Is it absolutely essential? (Depending on what exactly you are doing) No. Is it very useful? Definitely.
For that matter, an understanding of digital electronics, sufficient to understand how the CPU , ALU, memory caches etc work, can be very useful as well.
My 2 cents.