From: rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 2:50:12 PM UTC-5, a...@nospicedh   
   m.spamtrap.com wrote:   
   > Hi!   
   >   
   > Hey, wouldn't ya know, there is an easy way to show a windows-like   
   > message box in Linux:   
   >   
   > [72 lines of assembly code snipped]   
   >   
   > Multiples of 3 and 5   
   >   
   > If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are   
   > multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of   
   > these multiples is 23.   
   >   
   > Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.   
   > --   
   > aen   
      
   I would like to ask people's opinions here.  I realize this is an   
   assembly language group, so posting things like this in assembly   
   is what everybody expects.   
      
   My question is:  Don't you think things like this are far better   
   handled in a higher level language like C, and that assembly should   
   be used for only those things where it really matters?   
      
   Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, I wrote an entire OS kernel   
   in assembly.  It works great and is less than 64 KB, less than 256 KB   
   if you include the full kernel debugger and disassembler.   
      
   But I would never do it again that way.  In my 20s it was easier to   
   think and move in that way than it is for me now in my 40s.  And I   
   did not give any thought to the long-term maintenance issues of going   
   back to assembly code 10-20 years later and editing it.   
      
   At the very least, C would seem a better target for nearly all things   
   we do in assembly, with assembly being used for only those things   
   which C does not handle well, including things specific to a given   
   CPU core or ISA extension.   
      
   In the OP's example, I would rather write some C code to handle the   
   UI part, and link in any assembly parts.  The code would then require   
   more than just an assembler, but I think now in terms of maintenance   
   and machine capabilities.  Unless it has to be rocket fast, C/C++ will   
   be more than adequate for most needs, and so much faster to develop   
   and maintain.   
      
   Any thoughts?   
      
   --   
   Rick C. Hodgin   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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