> To put it a bit more bluntly: when you're writing in Asm on a > machine running DOS, and any bug is probably going to make you > reboot, you quickly tire of h

> To put it a bit more bluntly: when you're writing in Asm on a > machine running DOS, and any bug is probably going to make you > reboot, you quickly tire of hitting the reset button and learn > to think more carefully about what you write. Although I've > migrated from such an environment a long time ago, the habit > has stuck. I completely agree, a good argument for teaching programming "from the bottom up".