Re: Web Front End Advice

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to admit that assembler, while not my most productive language lol, is my favorite language.  It's the only language where I have complete confidence of what is taking place (well, discounting macros that is).  I can't count the number of times I've been burned because of the HLL doing something on my behalf (or "for my own good").  I certainly don't have to worry about that with assembler :-)
   
  Bruce Vining
  http://www.brucevining.com/

Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Jon Paris wrote:
> I wouldn't force someone to learn assembler before learning an HLL - 
> I'm interested in why you see this differently.

Now there's an interesting opinion. While I'd avoid terms like "force", 
it's been my experience that the best programmers - and particularly the 
best debuggers - were ones who started out in assembler. In fact, it's 
long been my assertion that nobody should be awarded a CS degree unless 
they understand Boolean logic and can program an 8259 PIC chip.

But that's just me.

Joe