Hey Everyone!
I've spent the last few years programming in several languages (C/C++, C#, VB.Net, HTML+CSS, SQL, and small bits of java, PHP and phyton); in various projects such as game development, security applications, database services, etc. But the time has come for me to delve into a topic that I once looked at and thought "Holy badger of beer!". Yes my friends, I'm talking about the good, old, low level.....assembly language.... *DUN DUN DUNNNN!!!!*. I have recently stumbled upon a website when doing some research in which 4 points of my question were answered.
Why Code at such a basic level?
- No bloat, by coding in a LL (Low Level) you can reduce the code to just the job in hand (already had a sense of that).
- Speed, Smaller code size means your programs load quicker and run quicker (also had an idea of that)
- Control, You are in control of the code, not the compiler. This means you know exactly what the processor is doing as it moves through your code. This makes it easier to get things right and to spot errors. (Interesting, do go on)
- Satisfaction. You yourself are writing the program. It is not being written in part by the compiler. (Too true, that is something that has always made me feel like I have OCD when programming in high level languages)
This is something that I've always wanted to do and hopefully my post might inspire someone else out there to make the same or similar move that I am making. Life is short and knowledge is awesome. Instead of just relaxing come up with an idea and go for it! (Think I'm going off in a tangent here).
Anyhow here's the link to the website I'm looking at:
http://www.godevtool.com/GoasmHelp/newass.htm