> At 04:25 PM 8/21/01 -0400, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> >I worked for a while with a Physics major who'd learned machine-language
> >programming for the IBM PC using DEBUG.COM. He also had no conception of
> >source file structure.
[..snip..]
> Ryo was already an established musician, and still is. See
> http://www.google.com/search?q=ryo+kawasaki . However, he
> also coded for the C-64 without an assembler. He just used
> the debugger. There was no source code. We first figured
> this out when we asked him how he did a certain effect,
> and he started reciting the hex opcodes. He didn't really
> know the mnemonics, he just memorized how to create the
> hex to match the opcodes he wanted.
it's a nice skill to have in *addition* to knowing how to
use the assembler, construct an application, etc. for the
system in question, we used SoftIce as the debugger. I'd
set up bounds-checking breakpoints to catch the errors
of programmer #2 (best friend of #1, the physics major),
who simply *refused* to range-check any values...
-dq
Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 16:38:39 BST