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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: assembly v.s. HOL
Message-ID: <510@terak.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 15:02:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 15:02:37 1985
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Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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> I have no doubt that Doug Pardee is an excellent assembly programmer but
> we need to remember that he is of an endangered species.  The vast
> majority of working programmers today don't even fully understand
> concepts like pointer values and parallel processing.

Endangered?  Gee, I hope not.  Is somebody coming up behind me with a
shotgun?   :-)

I certainly agree that most current programmers are indeed unfamiliar
with such concepts.  The main reason is because our universities believe
that such concepts are worthless and don't teach them.  And since so
few people understand the concepts, they must not be valuable, right?

Oh, I don't believe that "most" or even "many" programs should be coded
in assembler.  Which is mighty fortunate, given the attitude of the
universities.  But there still are, and always will be, programs which
should be assembly coded.  Since there aren't many, there don't need to
be many assembler programmers.  And that works out, too.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug