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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Choosing a language (ML vs HLL)
Message-ID: <1090@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 91 16:06:14 GMT
References: <8867@crash.cts.com> <1073@stewart.UUCP> <14193@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <14193@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>
>On the other hand, those who master
>assembly language are, in general, better programmers than the average lot.
>

Those who master *ANY* language are, in general, better programmers
than the average lot.  I think that mastering a language means more
than memorizing it's syntax.
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