From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111d6b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid111d6b,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) Subject: Re: Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java? Date: 1997/12/28 Message-ID: <883349821snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 310895171 References: <349D48FD.B61FD210@seasoned-software.com> X-Mail2News-Path: genesis.demon.co.uk Reply-To: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-User: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 883361678 3568 fred genesis.demon.co.uk Organization: none Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <349D48FD.B61FD210@seasoned-software.com> steve@seasoned-software.com "steve" writes: ... >> >If you are fully serious and correct about your understanding C, it was NOT >> >because you figured it out by looking at it! >> >> I don't see why not. I learnt to read 386 assembly well enough by simply >> looking at compiler output. > >Two observations!: > >1. Assembly generally uses MNEMONICS, and most are relatively easy to >understand(although 32 bit code on older 8086 based systems could drive you > nuts if >you don't know about segments). & and | are just as easy to understand than many of the mnemonics I've come across and often a lot easier than the representations of some addressing modes which are certainly not mnemonic. > Also, literal compares will tell you something >about what the previous command(s) do. That isn't as common in hand written > code >for those types of commands. Sorry? >2. You probably KNEW what the code would end up doing, and generally what it > would >do, because it was "compiler output". Usually I know what a C function is supposed to do before reading the code from the description of the function, and even its name. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------