|
"Joe Pluta" wrote:
Dunno about the chest pounding, but I absolutely agree that all programmers would be better if they started out programming assembler.
Dunno about "starting out" in assembler; that would leave us with far fewer programmers. But I certainly think that anybody who intends to make a career out of software, especially if he or she intends to write published works, should have a year of University-level instruction in assembler, and should then, in his or her spare time, learn the assembler of a different processor.
Then again, I've always thought that anybody who wants a career writing software should become passingly fluent in at least 4-5 different high-level languages, in at least 3 different HLL families. You need to know at least that many before you begin to realize that not even PL/I is a "language to end all other languages."
-- JHHL Mixed-Language Programmer, and damn proud of it.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.
midrange.com
