2 Aug
2007
2 Aug
'07
9:37 p.m.
On Thursday 02 August 2007 05:48, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:57:53AM +0100, Ensor
wrote:
As an assembly language programmer of some 29 years experience (not to
mention some 31 years experience of electronics....I started young) I
agree with that in spades!
When *I'm* interviewing prospective employees, I very much like to hear
that they know their way around an assembler, even though most of our
work is done in perl. If you've done assembler, you know programming from
the *computer's* point of view, and I'm absolutely convinced that that
gives you a significant advantage when it comes to debuggering,
especially debuggering interactions with other systems, and a better
understanding of the resources the computer makes available to your
code.
"Debuggering"...? I love it! :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
....I would very much like to learn machine code. I
figure that
when I start college interviews in a year going toward something
in the technology field....
That sort of thing tends to not have very much use in today's job
market, unfortunately.