I’ve been saying for years that the reason software eats up so much hardware (and it’s advances) is the compiler.
I did a bit of Assembly language programming, but it was not something I would have encouraged, then.
Today’s processors can do so much more on chip that it’s amazing. Assembly could likely help that, a lot.
(Instead of things designed to rip off and lay off humans.)
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Hand written? So some people can still read cursive?
The first program I bought was a machine language monitor and it was 110 bytes of code. Ran on a computer with 4k of memory. That code was tight and elegant and puts todays bloated software to shame.
COBOL and Assembler.......I learned IBM 360 versions of both in college in the ‘70’s, and served an internship at Columbia River Log Scaling Bureau in Eugene, Or. The main thing I learned from the internship was that programming was just a hobby for me, not a career.
When I went to school for computer programming, we had three languages. First was COBOL, second was RPGII, and third was Basic Assembler. Interestingly, I got my best grades in Basic Assembler and I’m not sure why. A lot of people questioned my sanity when they heard that... ha ha ha.
I haven’t used any of those three languages in my work career which will most likely be ending in 2 years.
I learned assembler code in 1978 in the basement of the empire state building. Retired after 42 years in IT and loving it;-)
You know you are old when you read through this article and understand it.