4 Jan
2012
4 Jan
'12
4:53 p.m.
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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC
On 01/03/2012 06:32 PM, Chris M wrote:
? I had to read this about three times before I realized that by "ml" you meant
"machine language", not the language "ML".
?C: Well read it again anyway. Chuck makes the assumption that all language
"work". You don't need no stinking ml to tell you that. You might need ml to
tell you things about the ones that don't work! Psyyyche...
?Am I a pain? I've been on this list for 6 or 7 years, and I yet to hear from anyone
regarding whether it's painful to read my posts. Or am I just forgetful...too?
If you've
been exposed to machine langauge before an HLL, I
suspect that you gain a deeper understanding of how langauges
work.
Omgosh why before? Why not after? How many, but the truly
deranged/depraved, learned machine language (machine language!) as
their first language??? I mean no offense to those who learned ml on
a keypad. Oh who am I kidding. I could care less if I pissed them
off!. But I learned assembler on a k/b! The real man's way!
Are you willing to declare that every compiler writer getting a check
today learned ml first Chuckers? Something tells me the vast majority
probably cut their teeth on BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN. But what do I
know.