[wellylug]The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

[Bruce Hoult]

On 7/11/07, Mian Lin <armislin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am still studying "Assembly Language Programming", I dont think it
> is dying as well. things like this are fundamentals for new
> programming languages. by the way, who is still using Assembly
> language in the industry? probably none.

Certainly not none.

There isn't much assembler in what we're doing, but there is some.  I
wrote a new assembly language function to be called from our C code
just the other day.

We hired a new grad a month ago.  His first task is to write what will
probably end up being 1000 lines or so of assembly language.  He's
never done it before (except for some MIPS in a university course).
He'll cope :-)

No way is it dead.  If you don't know how to program in assembly
language then you don't know how to program.  The same goes for if you
don't know how to program in a functional language (which essentially
means "no assignment statements", if you're not familiar with the
term).