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From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Beginning user's OS (was: Here is a really odd question!!!)
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On Fri, 03 Jul 1998 at 13:10 SAT, Christopher R. Bowman wrote:
> 
> Am I the only one who would teach people assembler as a first language,
> especially young children who are so bright and learn so quickly that they
> learn entire languages in a matter of a few years?

Not a completely insensible suggestion.  Back in the "old days" of early 80's
home computers, many of us jumped very quickly from BASIC to assembly.  I'm
still somewhat fluent in Z80.  ;-)

It might not be a "programming language", in the philosophical sense of the
term, but it _does_ teach you how the machine "thinks".

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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