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Should I learn assembly ?
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naved momin
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Joined: Jul 03, 2011
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To be a compiler guy in other words in order to learn how to make compilers and other system softwares does I need to learn first assembly level language ?
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Anand Hariharan
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Certainly does not have to be the first.
Depending upon the programming language and/or the target platform, it may not even be necessary (e.g., it is not unusual for a back-end to emit a "translated source code" in another programming language).
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William P O'Sullivan
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Anand is correct.
The push is to VMs now (ala the JRE). The Java Class(es) generated are usually not native "machine code" but interpreted, and in come cases
converted to "machine code" for performance, on the fly.
If you are serious about assembler language, then you should be coding something beyond a compiler (IMHO).
Try medical systems, or very very low-level IO such as hardware drivers etc.
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chloe brown
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Anand Hariharan wrote:Certainly does not have to be the first.
Depending upon the programming language and/or the target platform, it may not even be necessary (e.g., it is not unusual for a back-end to emit a "translated source code" in another programming language).
Completely agree with you.
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