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From: Matt Austern <austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/02
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smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy) 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.
> 
> Learn sorting algorithms in assembly?  Are you serious!?

Why not?  Volume 3 of Knuth is all about sorting algorithms, and
every program in it is written in MIX assembly language.