Re: assembler [was: Re: cheers for gogo]

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> I'll close with a brief(ish) summary: I disaggree that assembler is dead, and
> I believe there is still a use for it (if there is not, why are students on
> Electronic Engineering courses taught 8085/Z80 or 68000 assembler? Btw, I

Software Engineers get taught bugger all assembler at Sheffield Uni as far
as I can tell, which I believe is a BAD thing. It is a good way of seeing
another perspective of your code. Makes you appreciate C++ when you have
it as well.
We only need to know Java(TM) apparently.

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