Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers
Rhodri James
rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Tue Sep 19 11:09:41 EDT 2017
On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
> D'Arcy Cain <darcy at 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.
:-)
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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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