Re: "Mastering C Pointers"....

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 04:29:21 GMT

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 03:56:23 GMT, Roose <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
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>> Roose would be much less maligned if he would surround his
>> explanations with "non-precise" cavils. An unnamed number of
>> decades ago I had a very good mathematics instructor, who often
>> preceded some explanation with "this is not exact nor complete,
>> but it gives the general flavor. Later we will return and develop
>> some real proofs".
>
> I've made many such statements like that. Go back and read the posts. Note
> the use of the word "pretend", and "I _know_ this is not true on many
> machines, but the idea is to give him a general idea without getting bogged
> down in details."
>
>>
>> People would be well advised to learn the assembly language of a
>> simple processor. About the simplest is the PDP-8, while a more
>> complex machine is the 8080. I am omitting things like the 8008
>> because they are non-extendible, while the above two have complete
>> instruction sets which can be made to do many things with suitable
>> hardware. MIX belongs in there somewhere also.
>
> I agree it would be "well advised." However, his real goal is to learn C.
> You can easily get discouraged with the details of assembly language,
> especially with the tools most people have available. That is why I suggest
> it is nice to learn a simple model.
>

I'm yakking with some folks on the asm groups. 

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