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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71c41b6f4d72158c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-14 12:25:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D31D066.39919DFB@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: if X in 1..35000 versus Boolean References: <3D306ED5.33E80E09@myob.com> <020a01c22a9f$2b50d6c0$6400000a@dhoos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:25:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.74.216.166 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1026674759 66.74.216.166 (Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:25:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:25:59 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27087 Date: 2002-07-14T19:25:59+00:00 List-Id: Jan Prazak wrote: > But I am programming in a high-level language, so there is mostly no need > to know anything about Assembler, but it could help sometimes, of course. It's probably a good idea to learn (eventually) at least one fairly simple assembler/machine language. Something like a 68000, 8080, or one of the older machines where the machine code was designed to be comprehensible to mere mortals. Even tho there's a lot of new stuff going on, it'll help you understand what a base pointer is, what a stack is, what an exception is, and so on. Especially when you start getting into questions of "is this efficient" and such. Of course, moving on to processors that can implement virtual memory and multi-user programming would help in most cases too. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** Proud to live in a country where "fashionable" is denim, "stone-washed" faded, with rips.