Yep I agree with both of you, I learned assembler first Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Feb 19, 2012, at 9:40 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 17:14 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: >> Learning curves are not culture-free; they are specific to a person >> and his or her experience. What you find easy and congenial I may >> find difficult and disagreeable. >> >> It is possible to teach able people abstractions that make learning a >> new instance of some class of formalisms, statement-level programming >> languages say, easy; but that is another matter. >> > > Very true. Learn COBOL, and FORTRAN is easier, as is PL/I. APL, however, > will cause you problems. Or you'll write FORTRAN code in APL. And hate > it. But if you want real fun, take somebody like me who only learned > procedural languages in school. Now, give them Haskell or Erlang. Talk > about culture shock. No, despite the saying of "You can program FORTRAN > in any language.", you __cannot__ program FORTRAN in Haskell or Erlang. > Nothing like a "true" variable, because once a name has an assigned > value, that value cannot be changed. Well, not that version of that > name. As Bo Pilgrim would say: "It's a mind bogglin' thing!" > >> > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
