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I agree with almost nothing in Why Learning Assembly Language is Still a Good Idea, and I believe, I can generate a valid (if not unnecessarily contrived) counterpoint to each of his points. However, it did make me wish I had paid more attention to my assembly language courses.
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Call me set in my ways, but my article would be "Learn Programming In A Text Editor [esp. C#/.NET]".
People program in something other than a text editor? You must be referring to those fancy schmancy IDE's I keep hearing about. I thought those were a fad?