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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 123b8d,79cbfdf4caf8a870 X-Google-Attributes: gid123b8d,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: <4t0pcb$poq@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169545472 references: <4sf9e7$kl7@news.jump.net> <4slt4p$9jj@ns.broadvision.com> <4sokr1$4c9@news.interpath.net> <01bb7687$3ca92080$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Broward newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com) wrote: : Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems wrote in : article <4sokr1$4c9@news.interpath.net>... : > Patrick Horgan (patrick@broadvision.com) wrote: : > : > : > : and five or six assemblers for the same reason. : > : > I'd rather just learn C and port it. Asm isn't as important : > anymore now that there's so many different platforms. : > : > Scott : Big disagreement ... assembler is most critical thing any : programmer can learn. Not because you're going to use it : every day, but because it will teach you more about what's : *really* going on than 10 high-level language classes. : That's like saying that since most Electronic Engineers use : ICs, it's not necessary to learn the fundamentals of resisters, : capaciters, and transisters. : Programmers who do not assembly language are dangerous, : because they do not fundamentally understand what the : compiler is generating. They believe in "The Myth of the : Optimizing Compiler", that "compilers are so good nowadays : that you don't have to worry about writing efficient code. : If you do have to worry, then get a better compiler." -- ***********begin r.s. response************* a) start low and go high... b) start high and go low... common sense tells us either might work... experience tells us each has... ***********end r.s. response*************** Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us