[ILUG] Computer science education

[Niall O Broin]

I just read this http://tardis.linux.ie/2030/developers.slashdot.org and I was 
shocked at the idea of CS students NOT learning assembly language. Now it has 
to be said that it was last century (I won't be more specific) when I was in 
college and my first programming was hand assembled 6800 but then I'm an 
engineer - not a nancy computer scientist. But nancy or not, computer 
scientists learnt assembly languages for various processor, and wrote 
compilers.

Don't they do that any more ? Does a computer science course now consist 
solely of Microsoft training modules ? 

Say it isn't so . . .


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Niall