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I still don't understand how people were able to write software in the days when assembly was the only option for speedy execution.
by CaesarA 2y ago
I still don't understand how people were able to write software in the days when assembly was the only option for speedy execution.
- 6SixTy 2y agoKeeping things pretty simple in project scope and hardware helps quite a lot
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoYou can define macros over the assembly to gain a high level language sort of similar to an untyped dialect of C. For me it would be sort of like writing programs in C versus higher level languages: much more tedious, will take longer and require better planning/upfront design, but doable. With practice you learn some tricks that can seem clever to anyone not writing a lot of asm. It’s “just” a very low level language IMO.