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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Student friendly assemblers
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 22:19:21 EDT
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Here is the solution to your assembler user-friendlyness woes.

Get hold of a PDP/11 - a model with the toggle switches in front.
Make the students do their first few programmes in machine language by
entering them with the toggle swithes, one instruction at a time (of
course there is no `editing' of the code, just replacement).

Then let them loose on an assembler, *any* assembler.  They'll be so
happy to use it, they'll even settle for editing with 'ed'.

Okay, half a :-).

But actually I do agree with the m4 crowd - it works for me!

-- 

Paul Guthrie				"Another day, another Jaguar"
ihnp4!ihdev!pdg				    -- Pat Sajak