Quote:
Originally Posted by divisionByZero0
Assembly has a similar programming difficulty to C++ or Java. So if FIRST really did use assembly as a alternate language, there would be a very nice tutorial of assembly all teams could understand.
|
Similar difficulty to C++ or Java? I'm not sure what leads you to that conclusion. The complexity of the syntax may be similar, but reading a program written in assembly, or controlling the computer resources with it is far far more difficult. From my experience, the time it takes to write code is more like ten times as much. The number of bugs and difficulty of understanding bugs goes way up too.
To echo Ether, and peak behind some of the mystique of assembly programming, can you name tasks that cannot be programmed in C? Ones that requires assembly?
Greg McKaskle