On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> D'Arcy Cain <da...@vybenetworks.com> writes:
>>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
>>> theory behind what I am doing.
>>
>> I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
>> the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but when
>> it is executed, its for loop eventually is implemented using
>> a GOTO-like jump instruction. Thanks to my learning of BASIC,
>> /I/ can have this insight. Younger people, who never learned
>> GOTO, may still be able to use Python, but they will not
>> understand what is going on behind the curtains. Therefore, for
>> a profound understanding of Python, everyone should learn BASIC
>> first, just like I did!
>
> Tsk. You should have learned (a fake simplified) assembler first, then
> you'd have an appreciation of what your processor actually did.
>
>:-)
Tsk, Tsk. Before learning assembly, you should design an instruction
set and implement it in hardare. Or at least run in in a VHDL
simulator. [Actually, back in my undergrad days we used AHPL and
implemented something like a simplified PDP-11 ISA.]
Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
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