Thanks for clarifying your post and sorry if I sounded rude. It's just that in the past, what Art_of_camelot mentionned in his 2nd post was rampant in the TI community from 1999 to 2003, so much that almost anything BASIC-related would turn into a flame fest instigated by a select few ASM elitists. This has been much less common in recent years (the most recent case was from an user that appears to be banned from both Cemetech and Omnimaga since months ago, but it was directed towards Axe Parser, not TI-BASIC), but it still occasionally happens and Omni always tried to keep it away from its forums (in fact it was like the very reason why Omni was created). The issue, however, was not always people being offensive, but rather totally uncaring about the fact not everyone has the same learning skills for everything, which, back then, seemed pretty typical from hardcore programmers. And I personally am very vocal about it.
Regarding TI-83+ ASM, the issue that made it hard for people to learn it is because the best tutorial available is not written with visual people in mind so if you only work with real life program examples (eg a mini game) then you were screwed, and alternatives were often incomplete or even less clear to visual people. Hot Dog's tutorial and Axe helped, although some people still have serious trouble getting the grasp of anything low level.
In my case, though, I think it's more a case of minimal asperger symptoms that kicked in and rendered futile the 3 failed attempts at learning ASM, the one at learning web dev through a multimedia major (which I ultimately dropped out from) and the one at figuring out some supposedly very easy Axe Parser material. I have the same problem when learning to use different music creation softwares and getting used to real life habit changes.
Anyway no hard feelings held, just a misunderstood and I'm glad you are more open-minded than I initially thought.
