UNIX admin wrote:
I'm glad we've managed to dumb things way down in the
last 20 years:
...
No longer do we need to write in assembly language
(or machine code or ...)
And that's a good thing? That we now have compilers generating bloated code
that make it unthinkable to run a modern GUI?
Hey, I was coding realtime, *smooth* multimedia stuff on a 7MHz processor
inside of 16KB worth of assembler code! How much faster would it have been if I
had even a 40MHz CPU! Just look at people doing realtime Goraud shading inside
a few KB worth of assembler code on a 0.99MHz Commodore 64!
For crying out loud, we were competing whose depack routine had the least
number of *bytes* (48 *byte* depack routine was the record).
And we've progressed... how exactly?
... and my parents walked to school uphill both ways in the snow barefoot.
We've progressed to the point that nobody cares and we can think about
higher level constructs.
If you want to stick with the arcane knowledge that you have
accumulated, then fine. Nobody is taking that away from you. But don't
try and stop progress and development merely because you don't want to
know about it, or use it.
cheers,
steve
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