Comment by kragen

Comment by kragen 3 hours ago

I think the first several editions (two? three?) were in Pascal, yeah.

The first time I saw TP was on my uncle's Kaypro, which was sort of even more amazing: the screen wasn't capable of blue, the keyboard didn't have an F1 key, and the CPU wasn't capable of instant compilation. But the alternatives were assembly language and Microsoft BASIC!

tamnd 2 hours ago

For assembly, by any chance, do you like the "pink shirt" book? It is one of my all-time favorites! I learned so much from it back in the day. Sadly, I lost my copy somewhere along the way :(

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/peter-norton/

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kragen an hour ago

I've never actually read it! I'm not sure what I would recommend if someone asked me for an introductory assembly-language book recommendation. Probably something for ARM or AMD64?

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- tamnd an hour ago
  
  I am not an expert but have been learning RISC-V Assembly in my backlog for some years now. https://riscv-programming.org/
  Feels like what x86 could have been if it started clean.
  
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