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		mthoms on Aug 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 mo... I'm going to call you on that. First for moving the goal posts and second for generalizing without any backup whatsoever. From "Basic -> C/assembly"? Wow. That escalated quickly.

bkumar86 on Aug 26, 2013 [–]

Is'nt it the logical transition, at least in some schools it was, and i was thought the same way, begin with BASIC, and then as our curiosity increased we moved onto c and 8051 hardware/assembly.

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