Re: port I/O abstraction macros

Tom Lucas wrote:
I must say that I graduated in 2001 from a Computer Systems course and at no
point was bitwise manipulation even mentioned unless you took a module
rather unhelpfully named as "industrial control" which scared people off
with talk of dull ladder diagrams but was actually assembly language
programming of PICs. Good course in fact but under-subscribed because no-one
was sure what it actually was.

I just had a protracted argument about hiring someone who claimed to
have device driver writing experience, but did not know how to divide
and integer by 32 using bit shifting. The other members of the team
did not think this was something that a Senior Software Engineer should
know.

My degree was a hybrid so I mixed with the Computer Scientists and the
Electronic Engineers but neither of them would have even seen an embedded
system without going on the industrial control module. The closest the EE
guys got was an ancient 6800 programmed in hex via a 16 key keypad but it
was only for one lab class and you just followed the crib *** without
having to understand what you were doing.

I know of at least 3 technical universities that will not let you get a
B.S.E.E. without knowing how to write a compiler, and will not let you
get a B.S.C.S without knowing how to design an FM radio. The idea is
to quash any possibility that you might subsequently misrepresent your
university as an idiot who cannot divide a number by 32 using
bit-shifting.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

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