Write Great Code, Volume 2

Chapter 1. Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

“If you want to write the best high-level language code, learn assembly language.”

—Common programming advice

This book doesn’t teach anything revolutionary. It describes a time-tested, well-proven approach to writing great code—to make sure you understand how the code you write will actually execute on a real machine. Programmers with a few decades of experience will probably find themselves nodding in recognition as they read this book. If they haven’t seen a lot of code written by younger programmers who’ve never really mastered this material, they might even write it off. This book (and Volume ...