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

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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? ;)
> 

Yes.  Basic.  :-)  :-)