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: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172491618 sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) x-nntp-posting-host: ues5.cern.ch references: <01bb7fcc$c5a98de0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <4u5rqe$9gv@ns.broadvision.com> organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <4u5rqe$9gv@ns.broadvision.com> patrick@broadvision.com (Patrick Horgan) writes: >In article <01bb7fcc$c5a98de0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com>, "Tim Behrendsen" writes: >> 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. > >Good point Tim! It's sure a lot easier counting cycles in assembler. Yeah, predicting cache misses and pipe stalls is a piece of cake. The superpipelined processors make the problem even easier. >Unfortunately, a lot of schools aren't teaching algorithmic analysis >anymore. If there is any connection between algorithm analysis and cycle counting, I definitely missed it. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: Dan.Pop@cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland