[Info-vax] [OT] Assembly language, was: Re: DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-01-22, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> 
>>    The problem is the large number of programmers I've worked with
>>    who insist that there is no "goto" in C.
>> 
>
> As you're walking along with all those people with their head stuck in 
> the sand, give their asses a good swift kick ....
>
> Next they will claim there are no branch statements in assembler ....

I suspect that a good percentage of today's programmers have never
written any assembly language code at all and would not have a clue
about how to proceed if asked to do so.

That's not actually a criticism (unless you are doing low level,
embedded or other specialist work) because there's a wide range of
programming areas today where such knowledge is not required. At the same
time however, I still think they would be better programmers for having
that knowledge because it would give them a better understanding of how
the hardware they are using actually works.

Simon.

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