2SHOULDN’T YOU LEARN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE?
Although this book will teach you how to write better code without mastering assembly language, the absolute best HLL programmers do know assembly, and that knowledge is one of the reasons they write great code. As mentioned in Chapter 1, although this book can provide a 90 percent solution if you just want to write great HLL code, to fill in that last 10 percent you’ll need to learn assembly language. While teaching you assembly language is beyond the scope of this book, it’s still an important subject to discuss. To that end, this chapter will explore the following:
The problem with learning assembly ...
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