Curricula (was: Assembly vs. Everything Else

From: Ken Seefried <ken_at_seefried.com>
Date: Fri Aug 24 17:37:03 2001

Jumping in late, I know, but when I was at Georgia Tech (mid- to late-80s),
we were taught x86 assembly. There was a real focus on the concept that
"look folks, there's an awful lot going on under the hood that you might
want to be aware of when you write that Pascal (or C, or Lisp, or whatever)
program and the details matter". For that lesson, x86 asm is a pretty good,
if painful, object lesson. Much of GaTech was like that.

Oh, yeah...and we learned Modula-2 from Kim Kings book for undergrad OS.

Ken
Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 17:37:03 BST