Sonoma State University
CS Colloquium | October 15, 2015

Why Assembly Language?

Robert G. Plantz, Sonoma State University (Emeritus)

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

I believe that you “should avoid writing in assembly language except when absolutely necessary,” but that every programmer should understand assembly language. Higher-level languages provide a machine-independent means to program a computer that is generally easier for a human to read and write, but ultimately the program must control the specific hardware at the assembly language level. I will talk about why I think that knowing assembly language helps you to be a better programmer.