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

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In article <m9rl9m$tjo$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>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.

There's something other than assembly? ;)

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