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Just type in hexadecimal machine code directly. The development environment is completely in hardware: A hexadecimal keyboard.
The big bonus: No way to fight wars over code styles or naming conventions. What part of hexadecimal did you not understand? 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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This is so BAD that it made me DEAD. 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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DEAF, or what?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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There's this guy who posts in assembly newsgroups sometimes who insists on writing his code in decimal machine code. Decimal.
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That must be one of those guys who had to put his machine code routines in C64 BASIC DATA statements.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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But you can still have DEADC0DE, even in machine code.
I do remember actually learning to hand-encode Z80 assembler to machine code to program on the ZX81/Spectrum.
The Zilog Z80 Reference Manual actually taught most things you needed. They don't make manuals like that anymore. It was about the size of a bible, and much, much more accurate.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I found this[^], together with the parts and the schematics for my first computer.
I still have both the manual and the computer.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Those were the days of BASIC!
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In High School (in the 80s) I used BASIC (with PEEKs and POKEs) to make a square dance around a monitor. I was hooked. Then I went to community college thinking that I could continue my education and took the only CS class available: COBOL. That was the death knell for me. It taught me that "grown up" programming was hideously boring. It would be 15 years before I finally circled back around re-discovered my passion for development.
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In HS in the 80s, learned BASIC, and then DEC Basic Plus,
then Cobol (uggh), and Fortran (meh). Macro-11 Assembler (wow).
Wrote my first Run Time System (like a shell), learned how Octal Machine
codes worked.
Disassembled portions of the DEC OS (RSTS/E) as my final exam in the class.
Patched the OS to add hidden files [For some reason, I could logon when
logons were disabled, and I never needed to know a password. LOL]
I was sooo hooked.
Landed my first job at 19 on PDP-11/70s and loved every minute of it.
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Ahhh, the peeks and pokes, you've taken me back, my friend.
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Started using Commodore BASIC in 1980 in high school, then self taught on 6502 Assembler.
That got me started... went to community college and took business administration - electronic data processing. The course name changed to Programmer Analyst the following year.
BASIC, VAX Assembler, PASCAL, COBOL, RPG at college. Self taught C on a Commodore 64.
Then, started using Fotran at work, and mixed in a little C.
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My first job in 1965 involved using a Monroe desk calculator to analyze the output of a large Fortran program running on an IBM 7094. This seemed stupid, so I learned Fortran, wrote a back-end to the program, and changed my profession from mathematician to developer. After that, I regressed, using various assemblers before switching to Pascal and then to C. But I still hae a soft spot for quaint old Fortran IV.
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I really started programming with CPL for PR1MOS which was bit like a BAT file for Windows.
On the PR1ME we used a CAD system called Medusa which had a programming language called Supersyntax that I also used extensively.
Both of these are what got me hooked. Both would probably be horrible these days though..
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I became a developer to pay for an addiction,
food, I'm addicted to food.
Also to keep my wife from leaving me, I needed income. Luckily, I discovered I had an aptitude and liked developing software.
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I was working as a conservationist on a nature reserve and someone gave me a copy of VB3 to play around with. Two years later I was an employed developer and I have never looked back. Nothing else gives me the same buzz as programming.
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My high school had the good fortune to receive an IBM mini mainframe back in the very early 80s. I had exposure to writing very simple BASIC code on cards that had to be fed into a reader. The very fact that I could get this big thing to spit out something intelligent (relatively speaking) was very eye-opening to me. I got my parents to spring for a TRS-80 not long after and I spent many long hours typing in code from computer magazines and getting it to run. I was instantly hooked and went on to study computer science as a profession.
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C was the language that push me to development. I remember the first time I could print something from my very own programm, it felt amazing.
Happily I still programming in C for microcontrolers
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"Black magic performed by person or persons unknown..."
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It was the HP41-C calculator that got me hooked, then Turbo Pascal.
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I remember watching the Project Gemini[^] launches when I was little. While I thought the rockets and the astronauts were cool, what really caught my eye was the amazing equipment used in Mission Control to keep track of everything.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Real machines you could get your head round.
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Yes Siree!
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Right on! My first micro had Z80 on an S100 bus machine. There was no clock, so I put one together on an S100 scratch board - my first and last venture into hardware!
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It was a toss-up between PL/I or COBOL running on networked CP/M machines. Having experienced COBOL at university I decided to try something different when it came to work (recently created IT department where the junior programmer got to choose the development tools). It served us very well for a long time (well, 3 years or so) until the IBM PC's came along. I do miss using WordStar as an editor; it was the only way of editing files larger than 32k (if I recall correctly).
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