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I was programming 40 years ago and was very happy to be able to use "high-level languages" and not write everything in assembly. The high-level languages enable
by jgrahamc 2y ago
I was programming 40 years ago and was very happy to be able to use "high-level languages" and not write everything in assembly. The high-level languages enabled expressiveness that was hard with lower levels.
- scarface_74 2y agoIn 1985, any time I needed any level of performance on my 1Mhz Apple //e, I still had to use assembly or when BASIC didn’t expose the functionality I needed. Mostly around double hires graphics and sound.
- jgrahamc 2y agoYep. That stuff was necessary then and still is today. Just look at DeepSeek doing low(er) level NVIDIA stuff and making the GPUs work hard.