Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!gordon From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Need Assembly lang. to learn C? Message-ID: <1991May21.210859.9687@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 21 May 91 21:08:59 GMT References: <1991May21.175914.3681@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes: >To all: a local instructor, who teaches C, has told several of us who are >interested in his course that we should take an Assembly language course >first. Even though his course is C in the DOS environment and a knowledge >of 8088/80286 would no doubt be useful, we are wondering if this is really >necessary. Any comments from C programmers? Absolutely not. It might be helpful in understanding the finer aspects of pointer operations, but it is definitely not necessary. I have been programming in C for several years, and consider myself fairly good at it, and I know virtually nothing about assembly language. I did know BASIC and Pascal first, though. --- John Gordon Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu #include gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil #include