On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> On 19/09/17 16:59, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote: >>> >>>> D'Arcy Cain <da...@vybenetworks.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the >>>>> theory behind what I am doing. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python, >>>> the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but when >>>> it is executed, its for loop eventually is implemented using >>>> a GOTO-like jump instruction. Thanks to my learning of BASIC, >>>> /I/ can have this insight. Younger people, who never learned >>>> GOTO, may still be able to use Python, but they will not >>>> understand what is going on behind the curtains. Therefore, for >>>> a profound understanding of Python, everyone should learn BASIC >>>> first, just like I did! >>>> >>> >>> Tsk. You should have learned (a fake simplified) assembler first, then >>> you'd have an appreciation of what your processor actually did. >>> >>> :-) >>> >> >> Tsk, Tsk. Before learning assembly, you should design an instruction >> set and implement it in hardare. Or at least run in in a VHDL >> simulator. [Actually, back in my undergrad days we used AHPL and >> implemented something like a simplified PDP-11 ISA.] >> > > <yorkshireman> > Eh, my school never 'ad an electronics class, nor a computer neither. Made > programming a bit tricky; we 'ad to write programs on a form and send 'em > off to next county. None of this new-fangled VHDL neither, we 'ad to do > our simulations with paper and pencil. > </yorkshireman> > > (All true, as it happens. My school acquired a computer (just the one: a > NorthStar Horizon) in my O-Level year, but before that we really did have > to send programs off to Worcester where someone would laboriously type them > in for you. A week later you got a print out of the results and a roll of > paper tape with your program on it.) > > > -- > Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > What happened if there was a bug? Did you have to re-send it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
