On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Derek Peschel wrote:
> > So that you may print "HELLO WORLD". It's essential for the newbie.
>
> _Really_ fancy assemblers can imitate a Turing machine at assembly time.
> Then your program can contain whatever you want (list of prime numbers,
> factorial, counterexample to Fermat's last theorem, etc.) and your code need
> not do any calculation at all. The risk is that your program may take an
> infinitely long time to assemble!
That is a really fucked up thing to do to a beginner for their FIRST
program. START with something so grossly trivial that they can do it with
NO problems, and get a token success in their first attempt. THEN you can
make them work in subsequent projects.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 10:46:18 BST