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From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: Which language pays most 17457 -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1997/12/20
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On Fri, 19 Dec 97 12:36:12 GMT, billg@ALOHA.NET (William Murray)
wrote:
>The 2 year technical college in my old hometown had as their FIRST COURSE for 
>Comp Sci majors - 370 Assembler.

So did we, at Brown University in 1967.  (Well, it was 360 Assembler).


>  The reasoning was that AL immerses the 
>student in the "basic" structure of the machine and the operating system.

That's what we said at the time.  I don't think we were entirely
right, but of that group of students, a half-dozen or more have
been Chair of the CS Dept. at places like MIT, Princeton,
U of WA, Maryland, and Waterloo. Others are chief technologists
at Microsoft, Pixar, Sun, SGI, etc. There must have been some
validity to the idea. 

Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems