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I did something like that once for a truly awful machine-language-like system I had to work with at a bank: 8607,,,1 11547,15475,22002,22002 1316,1629,1,
by jloughry 13y ago
I did something like that once for a truly awful machine-language-like system I had to work with at a bank:
8607,,,1
11547,15475,22002,22002
1316,1629,1,1649
3001,1316,3,30078
11528,22052,22002,22002
9301,0,1528,1528
31568,10001,800,107
8560,,,1568
8550,210,,
3001,,,
3100,1316,3,30089
11547,15475,22002,22002
3001,1316,3,30089
3001,1317,3,10000
8400,,,
8550,700,801,
3001,,,
9301,0,522,522
3000,1284,3,10001
8500,,3,
8500,,5,
1547,,1,-2301
Through the translator, the result looked like this: https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar/blob/master/README.md
The arrows in the margin duplicated the handwritten notation developed by programmers to deal with the numeric machine code. If a colour printer had been available at the time, it would have duplicated the highlighter pens those programmers used too; instead I used boldface, italics, underlining, and condensed characters to accomplish the same thing.
- gruseom 13y agoThat's classic! You should make a post out of that link—it's great HN material.
- jloughry 13y agoDone. We'll see what kind of shreds the HN community tears it into. This ought to be fun. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6311717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6311717
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