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Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguy com> wrote:
>> Personally, I think this understanding is so important that I would say
>> *all* programmers should, at one point or another, learn to write
>> complete programs in assembly language, by hand. Not that they should
>> use machine language for their jobs, but because knowing how computers
>> *really* work will help them write better programs in the long run.
>
> OTOH, starting too low can lead to what I call the C-hacker syndrome.
I didn't say it should be the *first* thing they learn :) I would guess
that starting out in a higher level language would prepare someone to
deal with most of the problems you point out.
Although, I'll readily admit a lack of empirical data...
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...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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