----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:51:48PM +0000, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: > > > You have to agree, though, that the *mother* of all incomprehensible > > programming languages has to be Assembly language.
No, that would be *machine language*: i.e., actually having to program in 1s and 0s like they had to back in the really old days . . .
> No, I disagree, seriously. Assembly language was the easiest language I > have learned. Tedious to use, but easy to understand. It followed what > was going on in the CPU in a straightforward manner, little abstraction.
Out of curiosity, have you ever tried to debug someone else's massive assembly code? From my experience, the ability to use C instead of assembly for all but a few functions cuts software efforts at least by half for massive projects.
No, but when I worked for Novell I had to write a manual explaining all the various error codes one could get, which meant I got to read through all the C and assembly code for Novell NetWare 3.0 and figure out what was generating each error message and why and what you could do about it. (As with the M$ BSOD, sometimes the answer was "Not much," or, in several cases, "Contact your authorized NetWare tech support provider.")
-- Ronn! :)
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