Bob Lunn
10/09/97 10:39 AM


> I know assembly is VERY hard to learn (according
> to my physics teacher)

     Eh?  Ask them for a relativistic explanation
     of the anomolous precession of Mercury!

     Anyhoo...  learn assembler.

     Why?

     It will lead you to an appreciation of the
     difference between the expression of an
     algorithm, and the implementation of an
     algorithm.

     An algorithm (a description of a computation)
     can be expressed in many ways.  PIC assembler
     is one way.

     An algorithm can be implemented in many ways.
     The sequence of states represented by PIC
     assembler is one way.

     The one-to-one correspondence between the
     syntactic expression of the algorithm, and
     the machine states implementing the algor-
     ithm is (I believe) enlightening.

___Bob