> On Sep 19, 2017, at 9:09 AM, justin walters <walters.justi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> 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. >> >> -- >> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Could I have a drug >> at overdose? >> gmail.com >> >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > > Even Assembly is easy nowadays: > https://fresh.flatassembler.net/index.cgi?page=content/1_screenshots.txt > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Is assembly still a thing today? I wanted to take assembly in college but I was the only student who showed up and the class got cancelled. I dabbled with 8-but assembly as a kid. I can't imagine what assembly is on a 64-bit processor. Chris R. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
