Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Some people don't want a _desktop_ PC. Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: O.W.L. Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:332773 sci.physics:532584 In comp.os.linux.advocacy Snit wrote: > On 11/12/15, 4:37 PM, in article n237nq$lgb$1@dont-email.me, "Slimer" > <.m@nsn.s> wrote: > >> On 2015-11-12 4:32 PM, Fabian Russell wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:20:34 -0700, Snit wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> I have cut my teeth on assembly language. Once that fundamental stuff >>>>> gets into your blood it never gets out. >>>> >>>> How do you think this is relevant? >>>> >>> >>> It is relevant because the whole fscking world seemed to have fallen >>> madly in love with Object Oriented programming, and I happen to despise >>> OO with a raging passion. >>> >>> I have examined the issue deeply, and I can only conclude that OO >>> is so fscking popular because people no longer can comprehend >>> hardware. They are lost in the fogs of lofty OO abstractions and >>> cannot perceive the machine. >>> >>> But for me it is quite different. I BEGAN with hardware and assembly >>> language. I BEGAN with an intimate involvement with hardware. As >>> a result I can see nothing but the machine. Oh yes, I can understand >>> all the abstractions but, for me, such abstractions quickly fade into >>> nothing against the blazing image of the machine. >>> >>> When I encounter high level code of any kind, my mind cannot help >>> but to plunge immediately down into the assembly code that underlies >>> it all. Thus, as a consequence, I do not not especially favor >>> the creation of ever higher abstractions that serve only to >>> obliterate and not truly enlighten. >>> >>> It is, I suppose a sickness, but it is a sickness from which no >>> escape, or cure, is possible. >> >> All anyone needs to know is that coding directly in Assembly means that >> your code will take full advantage of the machine's power. No slowdowns, >> just full speed. > > Also will not take advantage of higher level abstractions. There is room for > both. > Why are you even participating in a discussion of programming topics? You have proved many times that you are completely clueless on that subject.