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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Lawrence Kirby Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/17 Message-ID: <840288278snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174735309 x-nntp-posting-host: genesis.demon.co.uk references: <01bb846d$c6c01780$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> x-mail2news-path: genesis.demon.co.uk organization: none reply-to: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bb846d$c6c01780$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> tim@airshields.com "Tim Behrendsen" writes: >Who's talking about showing them? I would suggest that if >they wrote a quicksort in assembler, they will have a much >better "feel" for the algorithm, than if they wrote it in C. They might have a good feel for how to implement quicksort in that particular machine code however it would be so wrapped up in implementation details that they wouldn't have a good understanding of the algorithm itself, at last not in the same timescale. -- ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------