[Year 12 Its] Re: Naming Conventions

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Say, has anybody else tinkered with assembly language or played with
CoreWar? I recall reading the original Scientific American article on a red
rattler train ride to Swinburne Uni many years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

Regards Roland

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Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Westall Secondary College 
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
 

-----Original Message-----
From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Mike Brookes
Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2005 5:18 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 Its] Re: Naming Conventions

I dunno - you youngsters got no stamina
Whats wrong with a bit of assembly language - beats hand assembling 
machine code.

Back in the good ole days of the Commodore 64, if you wanted to do 
anything interesting you had a choice of 6502 assembly language or 6502 
assembly language. In those days a Hacker spent hours studying 
dis-assemblies of the BASIC ROM chips to learn how to program the beast, 
not working out how to spread malicious code across WANs

An obviously Immortal Coder :-)
Mike Brookes
Chief cook etc
Copperfield College

Con Zymaris wrote:
snip
> Only FORTH could compete in terms of compact interpreter size. And FORTH,
> unlike C, really is high-level assembler, thus not appropriate for mortal
> coding minds.
> 
> Cheers,
>  
> Con Zymaris, Convenor
> Open Source Victoria
> http://www.osv.org.au/

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