Converting to/from pointer

[Keith Thompson]

But that was ALL that I said. Note the "in that" phrase.

Where did pete claim that the number of terms did matter?

 

[Malcolm McLean]

I'm not convinced that the student has to understand why each concept
is useful at the time that it's presented. The "hello, world" program
isn't particularly useful by itself; I think most students can
understand that it's leading to something else.

He does have to understand why what he is beign taught is useful. To some
extent you must trust the instructor. However it helps.

"Hello World", for instance, produces something on the screen.
In assembly, the equivalent is "return x", because there is no easy way of
calling an IO routine from assembly language. So we could say that the
simplest C program that actually does something is one that just returns a
flag to the environment. However that doesn't have the satisfying feel of
"I've made the computer do something" to it.

 

[¬a\\/b]

putch: push a
push c
mov a, ch
mvi c, putc
call sys
pop c
pop a
ret

are you more a C programmer or an assembly programmer?