Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!ncrcce!rogers From: rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Bob Rogers) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Assembly or ....ok Message-ID: <915@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> Date: 3 Dec 88 06:55:38 GMT References: <11915@cup.portal.com> <6286@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Reply-To: rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Bob Rogers) Organization: NCR Comten, Inc. Lines: 13 In article <6286@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes: >I have long advocated that programmers need to know more than how to >feed Pascal and "C" to a "black box" that spits out answers..... Amen! This debate reminds me of a comment in a book on blacksmithing I once read. The author had the benefit of German technical school training in metalworking. He told of how the entire first year was spent on metal filing. There's a lot to be said for knowing the basics. -- Bob Rogers rogers@stpaul.ncr.com or rogers@pnet51.cts.com NCR Comten, St. Paul, MN GEnie: R.C.ROGERS