[Coco] dumb profs wasRe: trig.h

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Tue Jan 11 21:55:40 EST 2011


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 06:34:42PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> University of Vermont (my alma-mater) dropped Assembly Language and 
> Machine Organization as a required course in the CS curriculum.  Just 
> incredible.  

Yeah, that's pretty mind-blowing.  It's all object-this and abstract
that.  But eventually, at the bottom of all those layers of code, the
machine is still "load a register."  "add 1."  "store register." 

Willard
-- 
Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
  -- R.E. Howard



More information about the Coco mailing list