Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: C is not a low level language Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:53:19 +0000 Organization: 255 software Lines: 22 Message-ID: <+BH$Xu6fFAdcFwF7@255soft.uk> References: <0l667epbo7k9do14n1d38gfc5onn0imkgo@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a29c11a90a25a34e2eb54e5c4ce715e4"; logging-data="9229"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ww2UKxjjOcClebjeoQbFD" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Cancel-Lock: sha1:DSSG4EtBKaF/MoLEc8dvrospAxc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:141311 comp.programming:9710 alt.comp.os.windows-10:86152 In message , Wolf K writes: [] >FTR, I took an IBM assembler about 40 years ago. Can still read maybe >20% of an assembler printout, but couldn't code my way out of paper >bag. But by the end of the course, I could write 15-20 lines without a >bug. The instructor said this was pretty good. > About ten years ago, I was startled, speaking to a new graduate with a computing degree, when he revealed that he'd NEVER DONE ANY ASSEMBLER. Thinking about it afterwards, I decided that the computing world is certainly big enough that he'd have no difficulty in finding employment, but it did throw me at the time; I'd come up through (7-bit serial then) 8-bit, 6800 and 6502, then in professional life some work in bit-slice processors (AMD 2901, 2960, etc., and the IDT copies thereof), where we had to _create_ our assembly tools as we assembled our processors. Maybe nowadays assembler is _rare_? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf You cannot simply assume someone is honest just because they are not an MP.