23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
5:41 a.m.
> You mean
you teach them Intel assembler?
Yes
Not because it's "good", but because it's needed. (I teach at a
community
college, where we are teaching "useful" skills, not the abstractions of
the university.)
I didn't know Intel was needed. If that is the case, it must
be the fault
of community colleges (whatever that is). I've been both told and taught that assembly is
not used anymore on the Intel
platform, at least not Intel-based computers, and that modern compilers do
the job much better anyway.
Sure.
And the same people say that classic computers are useless.
You listen to them? I won't risk moderation by commenting about those
people.
No, modern compilers do NOT "do the job much better anyway". It could be
argued that you can now GET AWAY with the quality of the output of modern
compilers by throwing RAM and CPU at it, but that is NOT the same as doing
the job better.
If you can get
a quorum for a class at this school in some other processor
family and meet the state legal requirements, then I will personally break
enough administrator arms to get you hired to teach it.
Quid pro quorum?