Curricula (was: Assembly vs. Everything Else

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Sep 4 16:04:02 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

One of the most educational classes I took was writing assembly language
modules that were called from Fortran on a IBM 360. Did a wonderfull job of
beating a number of important concepts into my head, because either you
understood or it didn't work.
Received on Tue Sep 04 2001 - 16:04:02 BST