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Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

Subject: Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
From: "White Flame $aka David Holz$" <whiteflame52@y.a.h.o.o.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:51:42 -0800
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"Really" <barryem@yahoo.com> wrote in message
1c7cf088462765c2a0e63c17ceaa1ece@news.teranews.com">news:1c7cf088462765c2a0e63c17ceaa1ece@news.teranews.com...
> Through a 35 year programming career (I'm retired now) there was
> never a month where something didn't make me very glad to have that
> assembly experience, even though I never actually used assembly
> during some years.

Though I've only had a 10 year programming career (20 years of programming
experience) doing very high-level code, I can fully agree.  You don't
technically *need* to know low-level concepts in order to create working
code, but it certainly helps you do it *well*, as well as helps in debugging
and optimization.  When doing wavelet graphics on a 68k Palm for a web
browser, I did it all in C++, but continually looked at the generated
assembly code and massaged the code to produce the optimum asm code from the
compiler, knowing how it works.

--
White Flame (aka David Holz)
http://www.white-flame.com/
(spamblock in effect)

Follow-Ups:
- Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "vector" <root@localhost>

References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Glen <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Glen <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: "Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666@gmx.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: "Really" <barryem@yahoo.com>

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