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

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And then there's DSP code, where _sometimes_ you want to get every last bit of performance 
out of a platform, and recoding an algorithm in assembler is the only practical option

And porting a system to a new platform: you have to write the boot code in assembler, and 
you have to write the code create a C runtime environment in assembler.

Highly specialised, yes, but absolutely essential.

Mian Lin wrote:
> My understanding is the Web is not "taking over." the world, nether
> Windows. there is still another world,Unix and its appl
> 
> 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.
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