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I didn't know at the time that Assembler was supposed to be difficult to learn - I thought it was a super-simplified BASIC and treated it accordingly: "Hmmm, I need to set a variable. What command sets a memory location to a value? (Scanning the opcode list in the PRM...) Oh, this'll work! (Typing: LDA, 42; STA $C001)."
Ah... C001. Right at the beginning of the tape buffer. I'm currently taking a required class in 80x86 Assembley, and I'll be damned if I don't keep thinking, "Where are JSR and LDA in here?"
I used OO to do a lab report for a Physics class. I needed to make a fairly complicated chart with error bars and such. OO didn't seem to be able to do what I needed, so I ended up using GNUplot. Biz types who make a lot of charts might find that feature lacking. (If it was indeed lacking; I might have just missed how to do it.)
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I didn't know at the time that Assembler was supposed to be difficult to learn - I thought it was a super-simplified BASIC and treated it accordingly: "Hmmm, I need to set a variable. What command sets a memory location to a value? (Scanning the opcode list in the PRM...) Oh, this'll work! (Typing: LDA, 42; STA $C001)."
Ah... C001. Right at the beginning of the tape buffer. I'm currently taking a required class in 80x86 Assembley, and I'll be damned if I don't keep thinking, "Where are JSR and LDA in here?"
I used OO to do a lab report for a Physics class. I needed to make a fairly complicated chart with error bars and such. OO didn't seem to be able to do what I needed, so I ended up using GNUplot. Biz types who make a lot of charts might find that feature lacking. (If it was indeed lacking; I might have just missed how to do it.)
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