Beginning x64 Assembly Programming: From Novice to AVX Professional

© Jo Van Hoey 2019

J. Van HoeyBeginning x64 Assembly Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5076-1_1

1. Your First Program

Jo Van Hoey¹ 

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Hamme, Belgium

 

Generations of programmers have started their programming careers by learning how to display hello, world on a computer screen. It is a tradition that was started in the seventies by Brian W. Kernighan in the book he wrote with Dennis Ritchie, The C Programming Language. Kernighan developed the C programming language at Bell Labs. Since then, the C language has changed a lot but has remained the language that every self-respecting programmer should be familiar with. The majority of “modern” and “fancy” programming languages have their roots in C. C is sometimes called a portable assembly ...