high vs low level programming

[Rob Wehrli]

On Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:20 AM, Deepak Saxena 
[SMTP:deepak@csociety.purdue.edu] wrote:
>
> I decided to look through the archives for this list and seems

Please excuse my "M$ Outlook" reply...I'm traveling using a company laptop 
with...ugg, Windows 98!

> How many people here are low level hackers

Add me to your list of both low level and high level.  As the principle 
behind the MyLinux Pocket Linux Workstation project and author of "Linux 
Embedded Programming" (due out August/2001) I have some familiarity with 
low-level Linux.  See our http://www.azpower.com/mylinux page at the bottom 
for a photo of our PLW boards...  A few months ago I met with Jim Ready to 
talk about software...it didn't seem to go anywhere.

> What's other people experiences with different levels of software 
development?

Well, I've been involved with asm to xml and beyond...but I'm not the 
world's greatest anything :)

> What about those that have started with one and gone the other way?

I started with BASIC on a Z80-based TRS-80 about 1977-ish.  Why not 
continue this discussion over the next PLUG meeting.  I'm trying to attend 
this meeting since I haven't yet had a chance to be at one.

> lever coder to a high level one than vice versa.  What I've noted
> is that a lot of high level programmers haven't had the exposure
> to hardware concepts and that makes it really hard to grasp
> how the code actually maps to hardware bits.

Understatement of the year!  A lot of high-level people don't realize a lot 
of what goe on "under the hood" of their screaming Pentium workhorse.  A 
lot of low-level people have never considered how useful interface 
inheritance can be!

>
> Comments, flames?
>
> g'night,
> ~Deepak
>
> --
> Deepak Saxena - deepak@csociety.purdue.edu - phone://602.790.0500
>
> Code Monkey, MontaVista Software, Inc. - THE Embedded Linux Experts
>

(The "self-proclaimed" experts?  ...seriously, I know that they have a lot 
of good talent, but hey, who are they trying to convince?)

Take Care.

Rob!