My daughter does but she has programmed in Assembly. She will start in on C
this year if all goes to plan.
Larry


At 02:28 PM 8/1/02 +0000, you wrote:
>14 YEAR OLD KIDS PLAY WITH MCU'S?
> > > I honestly don't know whty people in general don't like assembly.
> >
> > 1. It does not eliminate unused (uncalled) code
> > 2. It does not optimize (like: inline code that is called only once)
> > 3. It does not warn when I exceed 8 (or 9, or 2, ...) stack levels
> > 4. It does not (automatically) hack around the stack limit
> > 5. It does not 'share' file registers used in different pieces of code
> > (pseudo-stack)
> > 6. It is slower to write (general rule: lines/hour is the sam in each
> > langauge, HLL typically produces a few instrutions poer line fo HLL, so
> > it codes faster, even considering an asm coder would have used somewhat
> > fewer instructions)
> > 7. It is more difficult to read
> > 8. It is more difficult get target-independence (I know, even HLL won't
> > be totally target-independent)
> > 9. It does not transparently handle coding/banking (I know: not all
> > HLL's do that either)
> > 10. It is more difficult to explain to 14-year old kids
> > ....
> >
> > Wouter van Ooijen
> >
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