peaple learning asm

[xellos]

are there other people who just want to learn asm instead of other programming languages?
whats your reason?

[xellos]

can someone please reply? :U

[BlackVortex]

This question has been asked a gazillion times, and there are many debates about this. It's gotten kinda boring. I'm sure if you search around the forum you'll find more info.

Also, this isn't related to 16-bit Programming, be careful next time where you make your threads.

[dedndave]

i prefer to write exclusively in ASM
over the years, i have learned C, basic, and even fortran
for some quick caclulation or test type program, i may still use one of those
i have written hundreds of routines in ASM that are C-callable, to speed up someone elses larger C application
when i wrote my first computer program, there weren't many compilers available at all
in fact, i coded several test routines in 1's and 0's machine language before obtaining an assembler
my roots are defined in electronics engineering
as such, i have a fair understanding of what is going on inside a processor
that explains the ease of use of assembler
as for preference, there are no limitations with assembler
except for in-line assembler, there always seems to be some little thing that a compiler cannot do
also, if you understand assembler, there are no real "secrets"
you can always reverse engineer a system down to the lowest level
understanding and disassembling the BIOS code is a good example
in days of old, i even modified a few BIOS chips to overcome limitations or fix bugs
you just cannot do that with any other language