Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers

[justin walters]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2017-09-19, Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 19/09/17 16:00, Stefan Ram wrote:
> >> D'Arcy Cain <darcy at VybeNetworks.com> writes:
> >>> of course, I use calculators and computers but I still understand the
> >>> theory behind what I am doing.
> >>
> >>    I started out programming in BASIC. Today, I use Python,
> >>    the BASIC of the 21st century. Python has no GOTO, but when
> >>    it is executed, its for loop eventually is implemented using
> >>    a GOTO-like jump instruction. Thanks to my learning of BASIC,
> >>    /I/ can have this insight. Younger people, who never learned
> >>    GOTO, may still be able to use Python, but they will not
> >>    understand what is going on behind the curtains. Therefore, for
> >>    a profound understanding of Python, everyone should learn BASIC
> >>    first, just like I did!
> >
> > Tsk.  You should have learned (a fake simplified) assembler first, then
> > you'd have an appreciation of what your processor actually did.
> >
> >:-)
>
> Tsk, Tsk.  Before learning assembly, you should design an instruction
> set and implement it in hardare.  Or at least run in in a VHDL
> simulator.  [Actually, back in my undergrad days we used AHPL and
> implemented something like a simplified PDP-11 ISA.]
>
> Alternatively, you should design an instruction set and implement it
> using microcode and AM2900 bit-slice processors.
>
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Even Assembly is easy nowadays:
https://fresh.flatassembler.net/index.cgi?page=content/1_screenshots.txt