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From: cws9669@isc.rit.edu (C.W. Southern )
Subject: Re: Need Assembly lang. to learn C?
Message-ID: <1991May22.032923.27165@isc.rit.edu>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
References: <1991May21.175914.3681@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991May21.210859.9687@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 May 91 03:29:23 GMT

In article <1991May21.210859.9687@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>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.
>
   I learned C after pascal, then later took assembly.  I didn't have any
trouble learning C, but assembly did clear some things up,  that I had
trouble understanding.  But you can learn C without taking assembly.


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