From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Tim Behrendsen" Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/11 Message-ID: <01bb87d2$1752b9c0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173574490 references: <01bb846c$e51df220$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <4ug4eh$qn8@zeus.orl.mmc.com> <01bb86f5$f7f8ae40$32ee6fce@timhome2> <4uk67k$ii2@solutions.solon.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: A-SIS mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter Seebach wrote in article <4uk67k$ii2@solutions.solon.com>... > In article <01bb86f5$f7f8ae40$32ee6fce@timhome2>, > Tim Behrendsen wrote: > >Well, technically you're right but there is a one-to-one > >correspondance between assembly mnemonics and machine language, > >so there is no practical difference between the two, as far > >as understanding the machine. > > Are you quite sure? I'd assume that assemblers would let you enter constants > in at least the three commonly used bases, and I would be completely > unsurprised if there were occasionally two ways of spelling a given operation, > perhaps allowing for a distinction which no longer exists. Of course you can enter constants in different bases, but that doesn't affect the code that's generated. The entire *point* of assembler is to be a 1-to-1 corresponence. Otherwise, it would be a HLL. -- Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com)