Need Assembly lang. to learn C?
Blair P. Houghton
bhoughto at pima.intel.com
Sun May 26 09:58:15 AEST 1991
In article <1991May24.122828.15081 at en.ecn.purdue.edu> longshot at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Without Reason) writes:
>In article <4407 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
writes:
>>Please, please, please, once you've learned assembler and
>>the inner workings of a computer, please, please, please,
>>forget all of it and don't even try to mimic it in your C code.
>
> In my opinion, Assembly will not help you learn C, but can help you
> understand what your programs do. Plus, it can help a lot in debugging...
No doubt about it. Learn assemblers in quantity. I only hope
that your professors don't try to confuse them with C.
--Blair
"Caveat matador."
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