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: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171454113 sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com x-nntp-posting-host: smosha references: <01bb73e3.1c6a0060$6bf467ce@dave.iceslimited.com><1996Jul20.124025.122789@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu><01bb7b06$311fabc0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com><31FF57AE.52BFA1D7@sh.bel.alcatel.be> <01bb7fcc$c5a98de0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> organization: MESC mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bb7fcc$c5a98de0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com>, tim@airshields.com says... > >Darin Johnson wrote in article >... >> > To my oppionion the same holds for software design. Assembly >> > language is no longer really needed. If you have the knowledge it can >be usefull, >> > but is it really worth the effort ? >> >> The effort is already minimal. One lousy class. And assembler is > >Except, IMO assembly should be used *exclusively* for the first two >years of a CS degree. The first two years is usually all algorithmic >analysis, anyway. There's nothing you can't learn about algorithms >that you can't learn and learn it better doing it in assembly. > >-- Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com) Learn sorting algorithms in assembly? Are you serious!?