[Year 12 Its] Re: Naming Conventions

Mike Brookes mikeb at labyrinth.net.au
Sat May 14 17:18:11 EST 2005


I dunno - you youngsters got no stamina
Whats wrong with a bit of assembly language - beats hand assembling 
machine code.

Back in the good ole days of the Commodore 64, if you wanted to do 
anything interesting you had a choice of 6502 assembly language or 6502 
assembly language. In those days a Hacker spent hours studying 
dis-assemblies of the BASIC ROM chips to learn how to program the beast, 
not working out how to spread malicious code across WANs

An obviously Immortal Coder :-)
Mike Brookes
Chief cook etc
Copperfield College

Con Zymaris wrote:
snip
> Only FORTH could compete in terms of compact interpreter size. And FORTH,
> unlike C, really is high-level assembler, thus not appropriate for mortal
> coding minds.
> 
> Cheers,
>  
> Con Zymaris, Convenor
> Open Source Victoria
> http://www.osv.org.au/



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