Re: Need C++ tutor for 10th grade student

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:46:37 -0500 
"Mark J. Dulcey" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> It's not surprising that assembler on IA64 is difficult. VLIW code was 
> never meant to be written by hand; because of the tricky issues of 
> concurrency that have to be managed, it's easier to just let the 
> compiler do it for you. 
This is very true. I had some occasions to work with a colleague in 
debugging some code. 
  
> These days, very few people in the real world program in assembler, at 
> least outside the embedded design community. Even there, assembler is 
> diminishing in importance as products move away from 8-bit 
> microcontrollers and toward much more power 32-bit platforms such as 
> ARM. On the other hand, learning assembler gives you an understanding of 
> how computers really work that working in higher-level languages does 
> not, and it will continue to be important for embedded designers and 
> operating system designers for some time to come. I think that assembler 
> would make a great SECOND language to learn for the student who shows a 
> serious interest in computers and how they work.