Assembly Language Quotes

• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

  Larry Wall

  Real, Writing, Technology

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.543, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I started out with machine code and assembly language.

  Charles Petzold

  Machines, Language, Assembly

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• Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Numbers, Lines, Language

  "PL/I as a Tool for System Programming". Datamation magazine, 15 (5), May 1969.

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• The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

  Mark Pearce

  Use, Ease, Language

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• MapReduce has become the assembly language for big data processing, and SnapReduce employs sophisticated techniques to compile SnapLogic data integration pipelines into this new big data target language. Applying everything we know about the two worlds of integration and Hadoop, we built our technology to directly fit MapReduce, making the process of connectivity and large scale data integration seamless and simple.

  Greg Benson

  Technology, Simple, Data

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• C is the assembly language of Tcl.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Language, Assembly

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• C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

  Erik Naggum

  Simple, Design, Language

  Re: teaching and learning with LISP/Scheme (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 20, 2000.

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