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- From: MAH@MERC.RX.UGA.EDU (Mark Hall)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.asm370
- Subject: Re: Be kind...
- Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.921230210048.448@merc.rx.uga.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:13:32 GMT
- Sender: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List <ASM370@UGA.BITNET>
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-
- > >Could someone please give me some hints on learning assembly. I
- have written > one
- > >or two little test programs in 'C' that do boring stuff like add numbers
- > >together and even that too nearly 50k! So I am going to switch to assembly.
- > >I just need to be told where to start. Should I start with a book, by
- debugging
- > >something or what ?? I would like to write nice little programs, for example
- > >a phone-dialler...
- >
- >
- > You have the wrong list, sonny. If you want to write a phone-dialler for your
- > toy, go ask on comp.sys.msdos.programmer. This list is for mainframe systems.
- > Any decent bookshop will be able to show you a shelf full of MS-DOS assembler
- > programming books.
- -------------------- REPLY --------------------
- Mr. Grant, have we become so high and mighty in our little assembly
- towers that we can't respond with respect and dignity to someone who
- is not 'at our level?' Your response to his query was totally
- inappropriate. Remember your roots - have some compassion upon the
- "uninitiated!" I don't object to informing people that they're in
- the wrong forest; however, the use of such witticisms as 'sonny',
- and 'toy' makes this list seem like a snobbish group of programming
- elitists. I hope that this is not what this list is about.
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