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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sees them using Assembly

okay this probably doesn't make sense but I'm too lazy to prove it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'd love it if they made a movie on Mel. The guy who coded a magnetic drum completely by hand.

He'd memorized a gazillion opcodes and tuned the drum to do better even before compilers had been implemented. He just didn't trust them so he refused to use the compiler lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

sees them typing into notepad

"Wait this might actually be legit..."