Need Assembly lang. to learn C?

[John Gordon]

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?

	Absolutely not.  It might be helpful in understanding the finer
aspects of pointer operations, but it is definitely not necessary.  I have
been programming in C for several years, and consider myself fairly good
at it, and I know virtually nothing about assembly language.  I did know
BASIC and Pascal first, though.

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John Gordon
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