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Duh, real programmers program in binary, right?
by pchristensen 18y ago
Duh, real programmers program in binary, right?
- henning 18y agoReal programmers patch in code with toggle switches. In octal. With their eyes closed. On quaaludes. Up-hill, both ways. Or maybe good developers (as opposed to real programmers) have the ability to look beyond machismo crap. Look at us, all feeding this stupid troll.
- raganwald 18y agoOnes and zeroes? What a luxury! Back in MY day we used percussive maintenance. Since computers were either analog systems with rods and wires or new-fangled vacuum tube jobbies, you could debug them with a sharp knock on the right part of the hardware. That would shake the carbonization right off the contacts and you'd be back in business. The other day I went diving, and the dive mater was showing off his new dive computer. Instead of buttons (which are prone to leaking and hard to press with bulky gloves on), it had an inertial UI: you tapped the sides to control its functions. Made my day to see us rediscovering the virtues of banging on stuff to make it work.