>From: Francisco Castro <f...@adinet.com.uy> > >On Wednesday 04 February 2009 17:58:24 Albert Cahalan wrote: >> Assembly has a reputation for being "hard", but this is >> far from the truth. It is large assembly projects that are >> hard to understand. For tiny things, assembly is even >> easier than C. What you see is what you get, exactly. >> Python has lots of magic. With assembly, everything >> is there for you to see. > > Using assembly is the worst idea for a non hardware related open source > project, besides the fact that the x86 architecture is awful, > programming in assembly will lock the software to that architecture, > meaning that you would have to forget about porting to ARM or MIPS.
he wasn't advocating re-writing everything on the OLPC in assembly, he was commenting on the suitability of teaching beginning programming in assembler. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel