Ubuntu 7.10 in October

[Darknut Profile]

Does anybody use Ubuntu here? I've got it installed on one of my older computers. It acts primarily as my software development environment* and thus far I've taken a liking to it despite some of it's short comings. Anybody try the 7.10 Tribe 5 Alpha?

*I really just use it to do my homework for my C++, JAVA and Assembly classes... why did I choose to take three programming languages at once?

[cavalierlwt Profile]

At least the C++ and Java are similar to each other. Assembly language? have fun, 25 steps to add two single digit numbers, LOL! If nothing else, assembly language teaches you humility and reverance for those folks back in the 1960s and 1970s who literally had to build everything from the ground up! How the hell they had the moxie to try to make higher level languages with machine code as their building block, I'll never understand it.

I haven't messed around with Ubuntu yet. Usually every couple of years I take the hottest flavor of Linux and install it, just to see the progress. Mess around with it a few months and then drop it when I run into a problem I can't solve in less than a few hours.

Have fun with the programming, it's good for your mind.

[Darknut Profile]

At least the C++ and Java are similar to each other. Assembly language? have fun, 25 steps to add two single digit numbers, LOL! If nothing else, assembly language teaches you humility and reverance for those folks back in the 1960s and 1970s who literally had to build everything from the ground up! How the hell they had the moxie to try to make higher level languages with machine code as their building block, I'll never understand it.

I haven't messed around with Ubuntu yet. Usually every couple of years I take the hottest flavor of Linux and install it, just to see the progress. Mess around with it a few months and then drop it when I run into a problem I can't solve in less than a few hours.

Have fun with the programming, it's good for your mind.

I have prior experience with programming (C++ and JavaScript). Assembly isn't really hard it's just tedious and requires a lot of precision.

[cavalierlwt Profile]

In it's own way, assembly is quite simple. What's hard, what I envy is the early developers for is the idea of doing something 'big' with it. It must have taken some serious dedication to get useful programs, compared to todays RAD enviroments.
It's still useful though, a lot of environments use some bits of Assembly to drive semi-smart equipment.

[Darknut Profile]

ZSNES is written in assembly or possibly high-level assembly (HLA). I can't remember, it might even be a mixture of the two.

HLA is a good way to transition into assembly.

Ever heard of MenuetOS? It's a fully graphical GUI OS written in assembly that fits on a 3.5" floppy. I can't imagine how many lines of code that thing is. Another plus of learning assembly is that you become more aware of what the high-level languages are actually doing and the exact reason why you can't do certain things in the code.