i should have qualified "assembly was the first language in which i did any meaningful work" ... i just played with the others. Basic/Pascal/Fortran are, for all intents and purposes, completely useless languages -- unless you're an Excel Programmer (Basic) or a Nuclear Engineer (Fortran)

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i was going to say that i program eeproms using C... if driving external hardware to manipulate data bit-by-bit, counts... probably not. i guess you've still got to understand basics of low level assembly programming.

but that should all be secondary to first learning the higher level languages like C/C++ ... assembly should come later.



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