Comment on An IRC Bot in Arm AssemblerComments−mattgodbolt12yAssembly used to be all the rage. At Uni I couldn't afford a C compiler (and there were no free versions for my platform, RISC OS) so I ended up writing a whole IRC Client, GUI and scripting language all in ARM assembler.A few tattered notes of it at: http://xania.org/200711/irbasic but sadly most is lost to time.−pjmlp12yI used to follow with joy of a kid that gets new toys, the release of each new processor and the new set of available opcodes.Nowadays even C++ is simple, compared to mastering all the opcodes and their side effects in latest generation processors.
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Assembly used to be all the rage. At Uni I couldn't afford a C compiler (and there were no free versions for my platform, RISC OS) so I ended up writing a whole IRC Client, GUI and scripting language all in ARM assembler.
A few tattered notes of it at: http://xania.org/200711/irbasic but sadly most is lost to time.
I used to follow with joy of a kid that gets new toys, the release of each new processor and the new set of available opcodes.
Nowadays even C++ is simple, compared to mastering all the opcodes and their side effects in latest generation processors.