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

["Richard Stevenson" <nospam [at] adv.net.nz>]

On 14 Mar 2000, at 10:19, Jim Jackson wrote:

> > Software Engineers get taught bugger all assembler at Sheffield Uni as far
> > as I can tell, which I believe is a BAD thing.
> 
> Not a lot in Comp Sci at Leeds Uni. either.

When I was at varsity (Otago U, here in NZ), we did assembly language on 
the Vax systems, very little C, and the final-year software engineering 
paper used Ada, which I've happily forgotten.  Until the mid-90s, the 
commerce department there were teaching Cobol, which they scrapped in 
favour of Delphi, and C++.  These days I just do it in shell scripts where 
possible, otherwise perl or C depending on how each suits the task at hand.

Cheers

R



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