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40 years ago I wrote Assembly that ran directly on the CPU. You could modify the registers directly. Then these crazy people came along and made a compiled lang
by koromak 3y ago
40 years ago I wrote Assembly that ran directly on the CPU. You could modify the registers directly. Then these crazy people came along and made a compiled language? And it outputs... Assembly?
I'm sorry, but a huge chunk of todays "developers" really are in the business of creating problems.
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoexcept when you moved to C there was no corresponding increase in fixed time which you must spend on tool setup just to program
- jhardy54 3y agoYeah, it’s really great that compiling C is a straightforward endeavor that doesn’t require any tools, and definitely doesn’t depend on executables that generate or parse configuration files. I’m confident that no C developers have ever spent time on tool setup just to program.
- bsdpufferfish 3y agogcc main.c Of course tinkerers made some tools you can tinker with as time went on, but you don’t have to let those interfere with velocity, just like I will not be using configuration languages.
- jhardy54 3y agoDo you mind linking me to some large C projects that don’t use make/autotools/etc?
- bsdpufferfish 3y agostb libraries
- jhardy54 3y agoSo… novelty single-file libraries? I’m not sure that “it works if you only have one file” truly supports your argument.