-> Are you talking in high school?  I believe few folks get out of high
-> school with well honed logic skills.
 DW> Oh no! University. Years and years of it!
Okay, that I agree with.
 DW> like programming in BASIC. In assembler, on the other hand, things are
 DW> much more mechanical, like driving a car. If you drive at a wall, you
 DW> will crash. You have to think in a very simplistic and mechanical way.
I like your analogy.  However since there are BASIC to ASM compilers, there
has to be some relationship there.  My take on the difference is that BASIC
does a lot for you with each simple word.  Each simple word in BASIC may
require a number of ASM steps to get the same message across.
BASIC saves the steps and bloats the code.
For example, if I can, I try to write stuff in BASIC, then convert it to
ASM.  The logic process follows.
Oh well.  Agreed we've talked this to death.
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