Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 15th Sep 2006 22:48 UTC
By picking the brains of Web developers and IT recruiters, eWEEK selected 10 programming languages that are a bonus for developers to add to their resumes. Even better, they're great jumping-off points, with loads of job opportunities for younger recruits.
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2005-07-06
Thats not really true anymore. These days, "embedded" systems can be quite powerful. I worked on some code that targetted the JTRS spec for military radios. It had to be fully portable, using an OS-agnostic and language-agnostic CORBA-based framework. We're talking about everything down to handheld radios here, running a full CORBA ORB. No ASM in there!
Most kernels these days have minute amounts of ASM hidden behind a few macros, and that doesn't require the ability to program in ASM so much as it requires a rudimentary understanding of it, and the ability to use a manual.
As for games --- even as of Quake III, the assembly code was limited to a few functions, and only then because they needed to leverage MMX and SSE. These days, the GPU does so much work, they may not have even that.
Edited 2006-09-16 04:58