22 Aug
2001
22 Aug
'01
12:37 p.m.
XenoSoft skrev:
> >> 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.)
On 21 Aug 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> I didn't know Intel was needed. If that is the case, it must be the fault
> of community colleges (whatever that is).
You are familiar with how many computers there are with
Intel 80x86 family
processors, and you are familiar with the software that is being run.
Are you saying that there ISN'T a need to imporove the quality of that
software?
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.
> I just love it when people just use what
they're familiar with, instead of
> actually investigating the alternatives. That's one reason why computing is
> so tedious today.
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?
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