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Indeed, that's what people would do back in the day when, between the wait to get an available computer and the time to compile, it could take days to find out
by savanaly 10y ago
Indeed, that's what people would do back in the day when, between the wait to get an available computer and the time to compile, it could take days to find out the result of your code. Can never be sure it works until you run it for real though, can you?
Unless, by chance, you were suggesting he set up some kind of turing machine where running is a different matter than reading your program over in your head?
- fallous 10y agoYou're not limited to "a machine that executes code" (even as simple as a Turing machine) and "reading your program in your head." Most 8-bit processors were easily comprehensible by people, and could be represented in a simple state machine. That state machine can be emulated by anyone with pencil and paper, albeit at a billionth the actual execution speed. But walking through assembler that you hand-compile to machine code, and then step through rigorously with a constant eye towards what the processor is doing and how it does it is probably far more valuable than any certificates.