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Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists

From	"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists
Date	2012-05-27 16:44 +0100
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"Gordon Levi" <gordon@address.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On the contrary. Your machine code (I'm assuming assembly
> language) experience is ideal as an introduction to Java.

Actually on the 6502 I used to jot down the mnemonics together with the 
appropriate data bytes on a sheet of paper (so I could write whether I was 
at my computer or not) and then look up and enter the appropriate hex 
numbers into data strings on my computer when I got the chance. 
Surprisingly, after some time doing this, I ended up with the hex numbers 
for the various instructions inside my head, so I could skip one of the 
steps! This was in the days of the 6502 of course (and 6510), which from 
memory had only about 253 instructions. I could write only relatively simple 
routines this way of course, and so I soon decided to write a simple 
Assembler (in C64 Basic) which helped me a great deal and which served me 
fine.

> Java is a successor to C++ and C was originally intended to
> simplify assembly language programming. You will recognise
> the low level machine operations that underly Java although
> I agree that assembly language programming on a modern
> processor would be a much more daunting task than the
> processors you list. Java even has a ++ operator straight from
> PDP11/68000 machine code.

Yes, that's the thing that worries me, the complexity of modern processors 
and the complexity of the operating system and of the machines themselves. I 
wasn't kidding when I said "I might not have enough time left to make it 
worthwhile" because I am on the final approach to my biblically allotted 
three score years and ten! I might still give it a go though.

> There are two further obstacles. If, like me, you have ignored
> the basics of object oriented programming when programming
> in VB you will need to learn them.

Yeah. I have. I have never been really comfortable with any high level 
language really, even with VB6 until I got used to it, because it means 
learning and abiding by other people's rules. I was far more at home with 
Assembler, where all I needed to know was the start address of the screen 
memory and the details of the I/O of the built in sound and graphics chips 
and the world was my oyster. Those days have well and truly gone though :-(

> Judging from the other posts in this thread it seems wise not
> to rely on [as an alternative] Microsoft for one's next language!

I'll drink to that ;-)

Mike

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  Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-05-20 10:24 +0100
  Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-05-20 09:41 -0400
  Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-05-20 19:27 +0000
    Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Sandwich <liam.whan@gmail.com> - 2012-05-20 19:06 -0700
      Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-05-20 23:32 -0400
        Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Sandwich <liam.whan@gmail.com> - 2012-05-20 22:05 -0700
      Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2012-05-23 01:37 +1000
        Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-05-22 13:24 -0400
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              Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-05-22 12:15 -0600
                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-05-22 15:05 -0400
                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-05-22 14:01 -0600
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                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-05-23 10:24 -0600
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          Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2012-05-24 23:44 +1000
            Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-05-24 10:07 -0400
            Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-05-24 16:07 +0100
              Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-05-24 09:57 -0600
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                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2012-05-27 23:07 +1000
                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-05-27 16:44 +0100
                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-27 17:12 -0500
                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-05-30 07:04 +0100
                Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 02:36 -0500
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