this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
1362 points (97.8% liked)
Programmer Humor
31992 readers
133 users here now
Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
Rules:
- Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
- No NSFW content.
- Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
sees them using Assembly
okay this probably doesn't make sense but I'm too lazy to prove it
I'd love it if they made a movie on Mel. The guy who coded a magnetic drum completely by hand.
He'd memorized a gazillion opcodes and tuned the drum to do better even before compilers had been implemented. He just didn't trust them so he refused to use the compiler lol