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- From: ell@access1.digex.net (Ell)
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- Subject: Re: OWL or not
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 03:14:04 GMT
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- Pete Grant (grantp@usa.pipeline.com) wrote:
- :...
- : In some ways, my position is similar to that of one who says you
- : should be able to write ASM code in order to be able to program
- : well in higher level languages. To come to think of it, that's
- : true also. I would be hard pressed to accept a developer's
- : claim to be an expert unless he/she was at least familiar with
- : machine-level code. But now I'm drifting off the topic...
-
- I see that one can be an "expert" programmer/devoloper without knowing an
- ASM. Must one learn the ASM for each particular cpu that you program on
- to be considered an "expert" in the high level language one uses to
- execute on that cpu? I don't think so.
-
- Elliott
-