Opus-the-Penguin t1_itvbpb8 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Reply to comment by 685327594 in [OC] Salaries Distribution by Programming Languages in 2022 by __dacia__

Good question. I mean SOMEBODY has to be doing the ultra low level stuff in order for the high level to work, right? But yeah, back in the day, the machine language guys were the real he-man coders and the COBOL guys were just BASIC programmers with a car payment.

685327594 t1_itvcr71 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:08 PM

Nobody really has to program in assembly unless they are making a new compiler.

Pert02 t1_itw5oad wrote on October 26, 2022 at 7:14 PM

Or when you need high performance on embedded applications. Lets say you need to do signal processing on an embedded system with a DSP. Thats all assembly.