Julian Leviston <[email protected]> writes: > Concrete is better than abstract for learning.
Definitely. Programmer students should learn assembler and write a couple of assembler programs. But professionnal programmers should never write an assembler program ever again (in some very specific case they may write a very specific routine in assembler, but that would be one in a million). (And C is just an assembler for a PDP-like computer). Similarly for memory management. Students should learn about malloc/free, and reference counting, and should implement a garbage collector. Professionnal programmers should only use garbage collection. And so on. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
