Need Assembly lang. to learn C?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991May21.175914.3681 at rodan.acs.syr.edu> ldstern at rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
>To all: a local instructor, who teaches C, has told several of us who are
>interested in his course that we should take an Assembly language course
>first. Even though his course is C in the DOS environment and a knowledge
>of 8088/80286 would no doubt be useful, we are wondering if this is really
>necessary. Any comments from C programmers?

It is possible that the instructor plans to explain some C characteristics
by referring to specific methods of implementation of C.  While I would
say that C is not very suitable as a first programming language, I would
take strong exception to any argument that the best way to teach it is by
reference to specific implementation details.