I'm sure you get enough praises each day, but I thought I might as well add mine.
I've been programming assembly for over 3 years now and I've tried pretty much every assembler out there, from tasm to masm, from nasm to orgasm. I used to really love tasm until I started doing non-application coding. While it can be nice to have an assembler with 30 switches followed by 3 lines of linker parameters, it's pretty annoying and useless. Furthermore, other assemblers constantly try to outsmart you, and you end up with binaries that don't exactly resemble your source anymore. That's extremely annoying when writting anything other than standard applications. Tasm is bad for that. Nasm is better, but I hate the way it looks. 0x does not mean hex.
Fasm looks clean and does exactly what I want it to do with nothing but "fasm in.asm out.bin". It doesn't complain about my .com file not starting at 100h. It doesn't add NOP padding if I don't tell it to. It doesn't try to "optimize" my code.
The reason I like assembly is because it's simple and logical. I don't have to worry about ugly abstracted high-level crap that's somehow transformed into even uglier machine code. Fasm is just that. Simple, clean, logical.
If I could now just stop running into errors every few minutes...

Yet another one to see the light... The System has us.

Welcome on board, fasm is probably the best that has happended to the assembly lanugage since it was invented. Fasm is raw power over the computer, raw as in WITIWIG (what i type is what i get) - I can even have fasm procude me xpm, html, fooBar and what-ever too, using macros makes it easier with (semi)repetive code.

And I just for interest produced with fasm file containing information about frequency of letters in some text file... But I didn't think out how to sort lines Fasm - is finest tool for zen-programmers
With fasm we can f*** the matrix

hmm...

can that be translated as:

I fasm the Matrix
and Matrix fasm me.
The Best advantage! We're FASMing for Free!!!

Just You guess exactly, what I mean


bingo!

I was a Nasm person, but F**M took over my world the first time I tried it,
& FasM seems to get better every week.
I seem to refuse to define procs & things,
and I like a non size defined environment where I can be FREE to:
PUSH CS
CALL myPROC ; call a label or
MOV WORD [DS:myPROC+4],AX ;alter some codes value

myPROC:
;int routine here
IRET

and another thing i really like is it is still in development,
so if you dislike somethink and convice Privalov (and that's a hard job ) you can get fasm changed to suit yourself

or if you find bug, just report it and tommorow it is fixed

Hi Ralph!

You just took my words too! Fasm does only what it is told to do. Nothing more or nothing less.

regards
Mac2004

Beware, Ralph!
Recent studies compare FASM to a sect. Once you understand FASM and begin to code using it, you spend all of your mental and physical energy along with your spare time doing it. No members of the FASM sect have escaped from this horrible condition, yet!