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From: throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
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Subject: Re: structured assembler (trained minkeys (oops) monkeys :-)
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 13:32:06 EST
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[   My reply below is Humorous in Nature (gasp), perhaps even
    Sarcastic (GASP).  You have been Warned.  ]

> Now for the bottom line for programmers:  if you're a trained monkey,
> then you'd better stick with C and Pascal.  But if you're really good,
> the fun, big money, and job openings are in assembler programming.
> -- 
> Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug

Gee, and I thought the trained monkeys were the ones doing the peephole
optimizations by hand, screwing around deciding if a few shifts and adds
are better than a multiply this time, and similar shenanigans.  It's so
much clearer to me now!  Worrying about algorithms and data structures
is for lowly technicians!  The *rewarding* and *interesting* (and
high-paying) work is translating these ideas into *raw* *bits*.  Just
imagine how rewarding and stimulating it would be to actually *key*
*the* *bits* *into* *a* *front-panel*!  I could even do multiplication
in hex in my head!  Oh, rapture!  Oh, joy!  What a good use for a mighty
programming talent!

And no more of this dez*ghust*ing *compiler* writing, where you figure
out what optimum code patterns are *once* and then let a (yuck)
*computer* do it, oh no!  I mean, I wouldn't even trust a computer to
run my microwave oven, let alone generate *code*!

[  Uh... *how* much more did you say I get paid if I do this kinda crap? ]

--
Dreyfus:        He's got no more intelligence than a pet minky!
Psychiatrist:   What?
Dreyfus:        What?
Psychiatrist:   You said... "minky"?
Dreyfus:        Damn him!  Now he's got *me* doing it!

--
[The invention of the bagpipe (read in your best Scottish accent)]
    Le' me see, whut ken Ah doo tu meik a rrreely dez*ghust*ing
    myooozical instrooment?  Sumthin' rrreally iirrritatin'.  Ah woonder
    what woud hoppun if Ah blew into a vakyoom cleanerrr....
        [I'd give credit for this, but I can't remember where I heard it]
-- 
Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC
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