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"I don’t think you’ll ever have to write assembly language in your day job" Not completely true. My company for example develops embedded systems for trains.
by Kurtz79 14y ago
"I don’t think you’ll ever have to write assembly language in your day job"
Not completely true. My company for example develops embedded systems for trains.
These systems can have a lifespan of decades, where they see daily use, and there's no reason for the customers to upgrade, but they might ask a change or some new functionality over the existing system.
Not me personally but I know of a few engineers that every now and then have to roll up their sleeves and write assembly. I would be surprised if this is not somewhat common, for companies mantaining long term systems.
Nice article BTW.
- lttlrck 14y agoAssembly is still the best way to leverage small microcontrollers and they're big business (AVR, Microchip). And a lot of fun BTW.
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- shoeless 14y agoMy first job after graduating from Maryland in 1984 - writing 6502 assembly for a voice/data switch and feature phones for GTE's OMNI series. Yes, the Leventhal book was all there was back then (it still sits on my shelf). I was working with some incredibly talented hardware and software developers, and the learning experience working with assembly and hardware was unmatched. Later moving on to the Motorola 68000 series chips which were great, but just not as fun as working with the 6502. The 6502 was so simple and well designed, writing in assembly was actually productive. To this day, the best job I've ever had.