in reply to Look at the Big Picture

I'm going full circle! For a job I program in Perl (ultra high level) on pretty serious hardware.

For fun I'm learning to program the Apple ][ in assembler. I think there will come a day when assembler is taught like Latin is. I like Latin, but eheu (alas) I don't remember much of it.

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Re^2: Look at the Big Picture
by samizdat (Vicar) on Oct 21, 2005 at 12:18 UTC
    While I was building my companies, I had a project to create a little microcontroller-based trainer that was programmed in a combination of LISP and raw assembler. It has possibilities, but I couldn't convince the money people that it had "legs" as a mass-market product. I agree that it's a better way to teach math and logic and the underlying basis of language than the gut-rotting conditioning that goes on in public schools!

    A 6502 is pretty low on the totem pole, although with a whole Apple you have some capability. See if you can get an Atmel Butterfly (~ $20).
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