On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:06:39PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > Out of curiosity, have you ever tried to debug someone else's massive > assembly code?
No. I think we are considering different things. I agree that would be difficult in assembly unless the original programmer did an extremely good job of writing the code (which is possible, but rare I think). I meant the language is easy to comphrehend and remember and know what it does in my mind and when I write some instructions. It is also easy to read it line by line and understand what each line does. You are talking about understanding the purpose or function of a large amount of code, which I will agree is more difficult in assembly than most languages. > From my experience, the ability to use C instead of assembly for all > but a few functions cuts software efforts at least by half for massive > projects. I agree. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But I have seen some individual lines of C, and C++, and perl, for example, that took me a LONG time to understand what that line, in isolation, did. I've never had that problem with assembly language. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
