Re:A Scripter at Heart
by plinkplonk on Monday January 26, 2009 @09:02AM
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"10-12 years ago I was hearing people say that exact same thing about asm when I was first learning C"
Learning assembly does teach you quite a bit. I think that at some point every programmer would benefit greatly from knowing (an) assembly language and C.
Is it absolutely essential? (Depending on what exactly you are doing) No. Is it very useful? Definitely.
For that matter, an understanding of digital electronics, sufficient to understand how the CPU , ALU, memory caches etc work, can be very useful as well.
Learning assembly does teach you quite a bit. I think that at some point every programmer would benefit greatly from knowing (an) assembly language and C.
Is it absolutely essential? (Depending on what exactly you are doing) No. Is it very useful? Definitely.
For that matter, an understanding of digital electronics, sufficient to understand how the CPU , ALU, memory caches etc work, can be very useful as well.
My 2 cents.