[jimt]

Being a retired Sys/App Assembler programmer from days gone by, can current programmers read ‘core dumps’ understand machine language and op codes etc? just askin.

Several years ago I was on an airplane with a recent computer science graduate. I asked him how he liked assembly language. He looked at me like I was speaking Swahili. He had NO IDEA what assembly language was.

What the heck are they teaching for 4 years ?

[Erasmus]

“Why, he so dumb, he think dat Assembly Language is when de Principal get up to talk.”

[ken in texas]

Several years ago I was on an airplane with a recent computer science graduate. I asked him how he liked assembly language. He looked at me like I was speaking Swahili. He had NO IDEA what assembly language was. What the heck are they teaching for 4 years ?

This is not new. During my quest for a BS in Computer Science we had to write and run programs in COBOL, Fortran, MIX, Algol, GPSS, Simula, SNOBOL, LISP, and probably a couple others I've forgotten.

During my first USAF assignment I was working with a Captain with a MS in Comp Sci.

Around 1976 we had a new 2nd Lieutenant join the group; had a BS in Comp Sci but had never "run" a program. In her curriculum you wrote the COBOL program out on paper and the instructor graded the source code.