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

[Cliff Pratt]

Mian Lin 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.
> 
It is perfectly possible to write a compiler etc in almost any language. 
A compiler merely takes text files and turns them into binary objects. 
Most languages can do that. So you write your compiler in text files, 
just like any other program and compile it with whatever other compiler 
that you have and out pops your new compiler at the end of the process.

Assembly language is good for fast machine level code, but almost any 
compiler can handle assembly code. From memory I believe that you can 
imbed assembly code in a C program.

Cheers,

Cliff