Assembly is vital for almost all CPU-bound applications. Making it inline just makes people's lives easier.
On 10/17/10 20:23, bearophile wrote: > (Catching some older posts, I was busy) > > Walter: > >> In any case, inline assembler in D is a substantial productivity booster for >> me >> for anything that needs assembler. The inline assembler is also quite >> ignorable, >> if you don't like it. > > I like the inline assembly feature of D. But language features aren't > ignorable, in real world you often meed or have to modify or fix code written > by other people. This means that a programmer that doesn't know assembly may > be forced to fix bugs in modules that contain functions with asm. So every > language feature is not free, it has a cost. > > Bye, > bearophile -- Regards, -- Clark
