Re: if X in 1..35000 versus Boolean

[Steffen Huber <steffen.huber@gmx.de>]

Darren New wrote:
> Jan Prazak wrote:
> > But I am programming in a high-level language, so there is mostly no need
> > to know anything about Assembler, but it could help sometimes, of course.
> 
> It's probably a good idea to learn (eventually) at least one fairly simple
> assembler/machine language. Something like a 68000, 8080, or one of the
> older machines where the machine code was designed to be comprehensible to
> mere mortals.

I would recommend to learn Z80 Assembler for the "well, it is an 8bit
processor, but you can handle 16bit values anyway" and the "why can't
I combine every operation with every register?" experience, ARM Assembler
for the "why can't every instruction set be as simple?" experience and
finally HP PA-RISC Assembler for the "I hate delayed branching"
experience ;-)

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Steffen

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