On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David Evans wrote: > 2. Assembly is not a very productive language, i.e. it takes a lot of > work for a very small amount of result. If you are the sort of person > who wants to actually build programs, see them do things and be useful > assembly is probably not the best route to go. I hope no one expects to be really productive off the bat when learning much of anything, including computer languages. > 3. If you learn assembly first you will understand most things, as you > climb up by how they work. If you learn a high level language you will > understand most things, as you climb down, by what they do. In my > opinion knowing everything by how it works is better (when possible). I think that this is one of the most perceptive statements I've heard for a while. And not just because I agree with your opinion! > 4. The way most books and other written resources (on the web, in > magazine articles etc.) are written they assume the high to low > approach. And no one that writes those things has managed to work themselves out of a job either, have they. ;P Cheers, Phil -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org