FAG: Re: i am interested to test a "theory" of programming i thought of

[Phil Carmody]

The other group in question being comp.lang.asm.x86.

I found this a hiliarious rant, perhaps you self-proclaimed C experts
might enjoy it; but if you don't like rants, press 'n' now:

I was disappointed by the lack of 'C pushers' in that.

Phil, still defending his sick religion.

 

[spinoza1111]

The other group in question being comp.lang.asm.x86.

I found this a hiliarious rant, perhaps you self-proclaimed C experts
might enjoy it; but if you don't like rants, press 'n' now:

Sounds reasonable to me apart from the lack of paragraph breaks. But
did what did he mean by FAG? Frequently Asked Guy? Or homosexual?

He's saying that a whole generation of dweebs believe in the Tooth
Fairy: that pure Platonic Ideas actually disport themselves within
computers when in actuality, twos complement arithmetic is either
implemented or else it is not, and actual parameters are evaluated in
some way.

He's right.

 

[spinoza1111]

spinoza1111 wrote:



"From Another Group".

Oh, I see. A singularly unfortunate acronym, wouldn't you say?

 

[bartc]

On Apr 21, 4:25 pm, Phil Carmody <[email protected]>
wrote: ....
Sounds reasonable to me apart from the lack of paragraph breaks.

And this is from a followup in that group:

Excellent post on a perfectly valid viewpoint. I mostly agree.

I found it mostly reasonable too, within the context of an x86 group, and a
discussion of whether to first learn C and then assembler, or the other way
around.

 

[bartc]

It did seem odd when he proclaimed that microprocessors always have a
contiguous memory layout, when it's the x86 family that's the most
common exception to that rule...

Yes, perhaps he wasn't around in the 80's.

 

[spinoza1111]

And this is from a followup in that group:



I found it mostly reasonable too, within the context of an x86 group, and a
discussion of whether to first learn C and then assembler, or the other way
around.

That's how we learned computer science in 1971. The professor made us
code in machine language, then assembler, then Fortran.