On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:34:32 GMT, Bob Martin wrote:
in 1319439 20061005 050831 Mark & Juanita wrote:
ĦQue viva assembler! 
He said 30 or 50, not 300 or 500. ;-)
In my 360 days I could solve a problem faster in assembler than could a colleague in PL/1.
And the resulting program ran 10 times faster.
My first assignment out of college was writing TI-9900 Assembly code for
embedded test equipment control. My last contribution to that assignment
was the hardware and software design for a specific test box; so I do
understand the speed efficiency and the ability to do device control
quickly. However, after becoming an analyst and systems engineer, I have
decided that speed of execution for many applications is way low in
importance relative to speed of coding. For example, at a higher level
than even Fortran or C, how long do you think it would take to program the
following in assembly code?
fid = fopen(filename, 'r');
y = fread(fid);
fclose(fid);
x = length(y);
figure(1);
plot(x, y, '-xr');
title('Data Plot');
xlabel('Data Point Number');
ylabel('Data');
After doing that, I decided I really don't like writing "for" loops
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