[wplug] first language

[Henry Umansky]

Where would one learn to program assembly for the x86 and will the gcc 
compiler compile asm code???

-Henry

--On Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:36 AM -0800 J Aaron Farr 
<jaaronfarr at yahoo.com> wrote:r

>
> --- Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws> wrote:
>> Understand that if you really want to be an effective programmer and
>> do it for a living, you really should learn lower-level languages at
>> some point.  C++ or C for certain, and you should probably get a
>> working grasp of assembly language, if for no other reason that to
>> understand what the higher-level languages like Java, Perl, and Python
>> do and why they do it.  That doesn't mean you need to learn low-level
>> stuff first--just eventually.
>
> I want to chime in an add my voice of support to this idea too.  After I
> learned a little assembly language, just a little mind you, _so_ many
> things started to make more sense.  I don't use assembly much, but
> understanding it has helped me quite a bit.
>
> Also Larry mentioned learning a "strongly typed" language like C or Java
> and I would have to agree with this too.  Scripting languages like
> Javascript or even Perl let you get away with murder.  While there's
> nothing wrong with using or learning these languages, it's important to
> recognize that there's still a lot to learn about programming that these
> languages "hide" from you.
>
> jaaron
>
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Henry Umansky
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