On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > > On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote: > >> D'Arcy Cain <da...@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? > gmail.com > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Even Assembly is easy nowadays: https://fresh.flatassembler.net/index.cgi?page=content/1_screenshots.txt -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
