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A comment on Ask HN: If you could only code with one language which would it be?.

Re:Ask HN: If you could only code with one language which wo... by quotemstr on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:34AM (#16341562)
What does this question even mean? Give me one language and I'll implement others as needed. Where do you draw the line between data format, template system, and "language"?
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Re:Ask HN: If you could only code with one language which wo... by miloelias on Saturday February 10, 2018 @01:57PM (#16348846)
You're right the question isn't entirely complete. It was more of a fun discussion type of question in my opinion.
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Re:Ask HN: If you could only code with one language which wo... by dTal on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:04PM (#16341860)
From this perspective, the correct answer is "assembler". Everything else is just fancy tools to generate that, right?
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Re:Ask HN: If you could only code with one language which wo... by xelxebar on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:49PM (#16342252)
Which flavor? GAS, NASM, MASM? Should we go with straight opcodes? And if we're talking it this far, what CPU architecture? Etc ad infinitum...
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