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Subject: High level language "fools"  (was:Re: Stellar 7 re-release)
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Date: 15 Dec 90 08:37:57 GMT
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In article <10621@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>Ten years ago no one would think of writing an application in anything
>other than assembly language.  Then we graduated a bunch of fools who
>knew only "C" or Pascal.  That's when writing (egads!) games in "C"

	I know you may be exaggerating, but I will presume you were being
serious.  At UCSC, one of the beginning CE/CIS classes all CE/CIS
(computer engineering or computer and information sciences majors, the
latter being totally software and MUCH MUCH MUCH less stringent and MUCH MUCH
easier than computer engineering... No offense to any UCSC CIS people who may
be reading this.. I at one time thought of switching to CIS!) majors must
take is an assembly language programming class.

	It's in 8088 on PCs... One thing I will say about the PCs was
that doing interrupt stuff sure is damn easy! You just do a little BIOS
call and change an address to your new routine... (I would HOPE it's
that easy on the GS, but you have to go through the toolbox, don't you??
Someone please inform me)..

	Basically what I'm trying to say is that I would be all computer
majors have to take at least one class in assembly.

>BTW: I am doing something about this.  I got so fed up with the lack of
>assembly language talent that I started teaching the subject at UC Riverside
>and Cal Poly Pomona.

	Are you teaching it in 6502 on the Apple II?! Now that'd be a class
to take!!!
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