Re: Converting 6502 Asm to PIC

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Scott Alfter wrote:
> In article <ee14f5c9-9b7e-412b-944c-a4bb4cf6ec57@r21g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
> PIC Newbie  <allenbsf6502@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems your PIC knowledge is not rusty at all.  Do assembler
> > programmers treat all the CPU the same, ie someone who started with
> > 6502 can easily learn 8086 or Z800 or 68030 in a short time?
>
>
> It depends on the architecture.  I started with 6809 assembly on my
> grandfather's CoCo back in '83 or '84 and found moving to the 6502 on my IIe
> a year or so later was fairly easy.  8086 assembly in a college course a few
> years after that seemed a bit more of a challenge at the time, but I suspect
> some of that was from not yet having developed the ability to move between
> languages somewhat easily.  (Some of it, some might argue, was just the
> brain-damaged nature of the 8086. :-) )

It strikes me that this could be an interesting way of characterizing
a programmer's developmental history:  a list of languages (actually
used for something) in the order they were learned...

-michael

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