"Amadeo Bellotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I've recently wanted to learn more about my hardware and i figured > what > better way then programming at the base level. I no it sounds stupid > but i > would like to learn to manage my own memory. so i was wondering if > anyone > has dipped there toe in either C or Assembly. If you have please > tell me > which one you prefer and were a good site is
Never mind my toes getting wet, I was thrown in bodily! :-) C is the way to go, although you may need to dip into assembler, but that can be done most easily by using the 'inline' or 'asm' features of most PC C compilers. Pure assembler on a PC involves a huge amount of work for even the most trivial task. But for the Python programmer I'd consider Borland Delphi, based on Pascal. Pascal is much more readable and Pythonic than C and allows the same level of access to the underlying hardware (and assembler when needed). OTOH Python is written in C so learning C can help with understanding Python too! HTH, Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
