Jim Mulder wrote: > Let's not be too hard on grad students who grade assembler >projects to pay their tuition. I can tell you from experience that is >pretty mind-numbing to spend all night reading and grading 60 assembler programs that do the same thing. <snip>
Sure, that's no doubt the case. It didn't help that the prof was Wes Graham of WATFIV fame. That compiler may have been a great achievement, but he was a terrible prof and a blowhard (I worked there in Computing Services for six years and that was the common perception, not just my own), so I *may* have been a tad bit overly ready to criticize. Also remember that I was 19 or so at the time :-) In addition, my actual point was diluted by my comment about not being impressed: I actually mostly look back at it with a grin, thinking of how irritated my buddy was about our respective grades! ...phsiii
