Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 01:33:40 07/05/02
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On July 05, 2002 at 03:35:01, Uri Blass wrote: >The advise that Amir Ban gave me few years ago about chess programming is not to >try to lean assembler. >He suggested that I should learn C if I am serious about chess programming. That's odd. I thought he uses C++ :) >I guess that C is easier to learn than assembler but I may be wrong because I >never tried to learn assmebler. You misunderstand what he is trying to say, but I agree with you that it's a bit confusing. You could probably learn all of the assembler commands in one afternoon, but you wouldn't be able to write anything very interesting for a while. It would take longer than one afternoon to learn all of the C commands or all of the C++ commands. So his conclusion is that assembler is "easier to learn". He's basically playing with the word "learn". To him "learning" something means to memorize a bunch of stuff and not know how it all works together. So to him learning another language would be to just memorize vocabulary, and he wouldn't have any idea how to put a sentence together. The same would go for assembler. You could learn all of the instructions, but not be able to write even a small program to add two numbers togehter. If you agree with that kind of thinking (which I don't, and I guess you don't either) then assembler is the easiest to "learn". Russell
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