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comment by tst

To be just a little pedantic, C hasn't necessarily killed Assembly as much the necessity of knowing it to program at the low level. In short, C compilers have become efficient enough to negate the need to write in Assembly directly due to, at the very least, being much more human readable, though not in every case (i.e. certain optimizations).





briandmyers  ·  3670 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're just explaining how C has killed assembly! Of course it still exists; it must (for C compiler writers if for no one else). But a micro with no C support is a non-starter today. That wasn't always so.