On 9/6/06, Hal Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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=>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hill
=>Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 17:46
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=>Subject: Re: [NF] Winroll - Useful Utility
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=>P.S. what sort of masochist write a Win32 app in assembler?
=>
=>Paul
=>
Assembler is the one language that has taken a bigger beating than FoxPro.
It is the essence of the computer. A computer works only one way and the
simplest expression of that is Assembler. You are right there in a front-row
seat with your hands on the wheel and your foot on the pedal. It's actually
easier to learn than any other language because there is not one bit of
pretense.
I've programmed a hell of a lot of assembler in my time, mainly due to
a mispent youth. Gives you an unique insight. It's supprising how
many programmers cannot grasp bitwise operators, byte ordering of
integers, even boolean logic etc.
6809 & 68000 mainly, none of that nasty little-endian x86 stuff.
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Paul
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