Assembly vs. Everything Else (was: SemiOT: Mourning forClassicComputing)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Mon Aug 20 20:17:29 2001

Jeffrey S. Sharp skrev:

>Jeffrey S. Sharp said:
>> Does it have to be "HELLO WORLD" exactly, or could something different
>> suffice?

>Iggy Drougge said:
>> No, you may put anything you want between the quotation marks.

>Ah-HA! Thus, the higher-level educational purpose of such PRINTing is to
>provide some sort of feedback to the novice, so that he can see, with one,
>simple command, the computer performing as he instructed.

>That purpose does not necessitate a PRINT statement at all. It doesn't
>even necessitate a text message.

>MOVE 10100101, DISPLAY_REGISTER

It has to be something immediately intelligible. The above isn't that.
Somehow, most newbies aren't as fascinated by the ability to directly
manipulate bit patterns (not to mention their ignorance about binary maths) as
the ability to print their name on the screen.

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