On Oct 30, 2006, at 21:43 , Luke Kanies wrote:
Do you advise programmers to start with machine language, then move on to assembly, and only then start using high-level languages? Or do you skip all of that crap and go right to the languages that are useful?
Wrong comparison. Start with BASIC or Pascal, or maybe Perl or Java, then move up to more powerful languages. Assembler is at the *other* end of the field.
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