25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
3:03 p.m.
"Nobody programs in assembly language anymore,
nor ever will
again." - Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley)
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
Wrong, and wrong. Where did they get that bizarre
notion?
The biggest reason why I don't think that I should retire yet -
I teach an assembly language class.
They're LISP (actually "SCHEME") fanatics.
They demo'd an example that "can not possibly be solved in ANY way
but recursion". While they were keying it in in Scheme, I wrote
out a non-recursive solution (with a 2D array) in C, BASIC, FORTRAN,
and I got halfway through writing the COBOL form.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com