| ??? 03/19/07 08:54 Read: times |
#135256 - rules? What rules? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
This sounds to me too proverbial.
Take a crappy language with a lot of design errors and pitfalls, add a compiler with unknown number of bugs, then tell me that a set of rules with only little possible enforcement in the compiler will save this *****. Tell me, please, what prevents you to set up a set of similar rules for writing in assembly. Although I certainly AM old fashioned, I don't think I am a greybeard at 36, and until now had no problem understanding (and writing in, if it came to it) any assembler (including PIC, despite of the nausea it causes... :-) ) after appropriate manual reading - and it must have been much much easier if you have somebody (the author) to explain. The errors, conceptual or "typographical" are the same regardless of the language. The only difference is the length of the program, asm's tend to be spaghetti-like - but nowadays you can have really big monitors and fast printers... It is also true that in asm you cannot get above a certain level of abstraction, but then it is also questionable if you really need that in a controlling application. All in all, I would be much happier if I'd fly in a plain with critical control software written in asm rather than MISRA- or whatever -C... Personal view, arguable. JW |
