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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Subject: Re: Need Assembly lang. to learn C?
Organization: Unix in NYC
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 00:54:19 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May31.005419.26273@jpradley.jpr.com>
References: <1991May21.175914.3681@rodan.acs.syr.edu>

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?


I used to write assembler code for the Z80.

Now that I use C (in Unix or Xenix), I have written no assembler whatever,
and do not know 80*86 assembler codes at all.

My C programs work as I want them to work.
I might be missing some awfully subtle improvements to my programs, but they
work as well and as fast as expected, so I think your instructor is overdoing
it.


Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341