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I always felt shame that I knew C but didn't understand how the code works inside the CPU. Finally I got a grip of myself and got the book with the dragon on th
by wmt 13y ago
I always felt shame that I knew C but didn't understand how the code works inside the CPU. Finally I got a grip of myself and got the book with the dragon on the cover, I managed to make my stupid C compiler. Turns out, it's not that hard, and doing that finally helped me understad stack and heap much better!
It also gave me the confidence to look at how bytecode based languages work -- turns out they're also not magic, and can be understood my mere mortals.
TLDR, assembly and compilers can be understood, and it'd fun too!