Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers
justin walters
walters.justin01 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 19 12:09:06 EDT 2017
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >:-)
>
> 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.]
>
> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Could I have a drug
> at overdose?
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Even Assembly is easy nowadays:
https://fresh.flatassembler.net/index.cgi?page=content/1_screenshots.txt
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