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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need Assembly lang. to learn C?
Message-ID: <16228@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 May 91 01:55:28 GMT
References: <1991May21.175914.3681@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991May21.175914.3681@rodan.acs.syr.edu> 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?

It is possible that the instructor plans to explain some C characteristics
by referring to specific methods of implementation of C.  While I would
say that C is not very suitable as a first programming language, I would
take strong exception to any argument that the best way to teach it is by
reference to specific implementation details.