On 2013-01-10 21:13, Walter Bright wrote:

> No. But a reasonable way is to just get the instruction set reference
> from Intel, and single step some D code in assembler mode in the
> debugger and go instruction by instruction.

I see, thanks.

> I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how knowing assembler will
> improve your high level coding abilities.

Yeah, that's one thing I've learned by reading the newsgroups here.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2013-01-11 05:22, deadalnix wrote:

> I have to concurs with Walter here. Knowing assembly language is a great
> way to improve you knowledge of programming in general. This is way
> easier than what most dev think.
>
> I personally know assembly for ARM and x86, and it is clearly helpful.

I have no doubt that it can be useful and helpful. The time to learn it just competes with so much else.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 11 January 2013 at 06:37:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/10/2013 8:22 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> I have to concurs with Walter here.
>
> I know that must be hard for you, and I admire your sacrifice!
>
> :-)

Ha, we have disagreement, but remember, people always make more noise when they disagree than when they agree.

On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 08:25:41 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 1/3/2013 12:22 PM, Russel Winder пишет:
>> On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 13:59 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>> […]
>>
>>> I finally threw in the towel and don't use Ubuntu to play music anymore.
>>
>> I threw in the towel on Ubuntu when Unity came out as the default UI.
>>
> Going OT but can't agree more :)

I rather like lubuntu (LXDE).

I like minimalist interfaces, I don't care about bells and whistles, I want things that plain work, that's all. I don't use Linux for multimedia, only for programming and work. So it runs in a VM on my laptop, and the simpler the better. With this philosophy in mind, I'm quite satisfied. The only thing I regret is, lubuntu is not a LTS release unfortunately.