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Wilheimer · Apr 12th, 2006, 10:10 PM

Hello,
Just found this forum and liked the looks of it so much I decided I had better join. I took up programming as a hobby about 2 years ago. I have managed to learn Basic and have become fairly proficient at C++ and now am beginning to play with assembly a little bit.

I am using MASM 6.15 to learn assembler, but I have been told that MASM is an antique and should switch to an assembler that supports 64 bit programming such as FASM. Others tell me that the 64 bit assemblers are much harder to learn and have less supporting documentation. At the risk of starting a debate I wonder if anyone here has any opinion on which assembler a hobbyist programmer should use to learn?

Thanks
Bill

Nebula · Apr 12th, 2006, 10:38 PM

Welome to the forums Bill!

Mad_guy · Apr 12th, 2006, 11:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wilheimer

Hello,
I am using MASM 6.15 to learn assembler, but I have been told that MASM is an antique and should switch to an assembler that supports 64 bit programming such as FASM. Others tell me that the 64 bit assemblers are much harder to learn and have less supporting documentation. At the risk of starting a debate I wonder if anyone here has any opinion on which assembler a hobbyist programmer should use to learn?

MASM32 will probably work just fine - if you're a Linux person, go for NASM.

Mjordan2nd · Apr 13th, 2006, 12:00 AM

Welcome to the forums!

nnxion · Apr 13th, 2006, 3:19 AM

Welcome.

Apr 12th, 2006, 10:10 PM	#1
Wilheimer Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Introduction and assembler question: Hello, Just found this forum and liked the looks of it so much I decided I had better join. I took up programming as a hobby about 2 years ago. I have managed to learn Basic and have become fairly proficient at C++ and now am beginning to play with assembly a little bit. I am using MASM 6.15 to learn assembler, but I have been told that MASM is an antique and should switch to an assembler that supports 64 bit programming such as FASM. Others tell me that the 64 bit assemblers are much harder to learn and have less supporting documentation. At the risk of starting a debate I wonder if anyone here has any opinion on which assembler a hobbyist programmer should use to learn? Thanks Bill

Apr 12th, 2006, 10:38 PM	#2
Nebula Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 203 Rep Power: 4	Welome to the forums Bill! __________________ When will Jesus bring the porkchops?

Apr 13th, 2006, 12:00 AM	#4
Mjordan2nd The Supreme Ruler Join Date: May 2004 Location: Houston Posts: 1,476 Rep Power: 6	Welcome to the forums! __________________ "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Apr 13th, 2006, 3:19 AM	#5
nnxion Programming Guru Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: elemental plane Posts: 1,429 Rep Power: 5	Welcome. __________________ "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." -- Socrates

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