[Nasm-devel] All the programmers of machine code that complained about Assembly changed their minds about the Assembly?

[françai s <rom...@gm...>]

According to Richard Hamming in the book The Art of doing science and
engineering, page 26, one of the main complaints of programmers of machine
code of  1st generation that did not accept the Assembly was that you never
know where the Assembly puts things.

The original of statement that I said above says (my emphasis):

Finally, the more complete, and more useful, Symbolic Assembly Program
(SAP) was devised-after more years than you are apt to believe During Which
most programmers continued Their heroic absolute binary programming. At the
SAP team first Appeared I would guess about 1% of the older programmers
Were interested in it-using SAP was "sissy stuff" and the real programmers
would not stoop to wasting machine capacity to do the assembly.Yes!
Programmers wanted at part of it, though pressed When They Had to admit
Their old methods used more machine time in locating and fixing up errors
than the SAP program ever used. One of the main complaints was When using
the symbolic system you do not know where anything was in storage - though
in the early days we supplied the mapping of symbolic to current storage,
and believe it or not they later lovingly pored over such sheets rather
than They did not realize a need to know information que if They stuck to
operating Within the system -no! When correcting errors They preferred to
do it in absolute binary.
Reference:
http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEngineering.pdf

I do not understand why 1% of programmers that coded in machine code that
did not accept the Assembly then changed his mind about the Assembly.

I asked the question based on the following part: One of the main
complaints was When using the symbolic system you do not know where
anything was in storage.

I do not understand why 1% of machine code programmers who believed that
the Assembly was heresy changed their minds about the Assembly.

All the programmers of machine code that complained about Assembly changed
their minds about the Assembly?