I started out writing machine code. With each "improvement" we lost flexibility and I didn't need any of it but they are all useful experiments and lots of thin

I started out writing machine code. With each "improvement" we lost flexibility and I didn't need any of it but they are all useful experiments and lots of things objectively improved. Imho software is for fooling around. We need it because we don't exactly know what we need or how to make it. When the needs are exactly defined we can bake thing into hardware. At that point all flexibility is gone.