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When I was a kid, there were no free compilers. You had to pay for tools like Turbo Pascal. You were either lucky if you found a decent free C compiler to downl
by allenu 4y ago
When I was a kid, there were no free compilers. You had to pay for tools like Turbo Pascal. You were either lucky if you found a decent free C compiler to download off a BBS or you pirated one.
- notacoward 4y agoWhen the original 128KB Macintosh came out, I started programming on it in assembler because I couldn't afford any of the compilers. Being able to work at that level affected the trajectory for about the first half of my career, and I think for the better. Growing up in a world with free compilers (and complete-enough scripting languages too) seems very different.