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From: curts@usenet.umr.edu (Curt Schroeder)
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Subject: Re: HLLs vs Assembly
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Date: 24 Apr 91 19:15:59 GMT
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In article <9104181707.AA29942@beaver.cs.washington.edu> davewh@microsoft.UUCP writes:
[lots of great stuff that I agree with deleted]
>Ok, what do you all think?
>
>Dave Whitney	Microsoft Corp, Work Group Apps  dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu or

I have been following this discussion for some time now.  Some of the comments
that have been made I agree with, some have made me angry.  Dave is the first
one I can truly say I agree with.  Why?  Because other than changing the order
of a few things around, he has essentially described the curiculum that I have
had!  I would like to note that the curiculum here drifted away from the low-
level stuff about one year behind me during my undergrad.  But, the curiculum 
is starting to swing back to a stronger low-level understanding of computing 
(I would like to think that I had something to do with this, because I have 
supported this approach all along, but I doubt one student's voice had that 
much to do with it ;) ).

The key to the whole discussion though is "Use the right tool for the job!"

Curt

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