On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:19 AM, freeburn <<a href="mailto:hossain@finder-lbs.com">hossain@finder-lbs.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> i've been using netbeans for c/c++/java/python/php. I've just completed a course on microprocessor and assembly language. in my university we were taught using assembly with c/c++ in MS visual C++. we were basically taught various DOS application using assembly/c/c++. but as i dont actually give a damn about Windoze, i wanna learn assembly language in unix environment. which programming environment should i use(cause netbeans can't handle c/c++ codes with "_asm" blocks, and i dont have much experience with gcc command line options.) . what about "nasm "? can it handle _asm blocks in c/c++ codes or it jsut a pure assembler like MASM. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> 30+ years ago I fell in love with the IBM 360 assembly language. Compared to the COBOL then used by most business programmers, it was amazingly powerful. If it could be done by a computer, I could write it. However, there is a reason that little is written in assembly language today. Linux itself is written in C/C++ because those languages are as expressive as assembly language without the limitations of processor specificity and with a treasure trove of standardized re-usable code libraries. Linux has the advantage of running on multiple processor families and with both 32 and 64-bit addressing. Assembly language code is too processor-specific.