Nobody's just reading your code

Re:Nobody's just reading your code by icebraining on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:09AM (#16471618)

The output of gcc and clang probably don't look much like hand-written machine code either, though. Or, for that matter, the output of V8 and SpiderMonkey. You can't avoid the compilers :)

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Re:Nobody's just reading your code by tobr on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:20AM (#16471656)

Of course! I’m not saying it’s rational. If I had experience hand-writing machine code maybe I would feel the same about that...

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Re:Nobody's just reading your code by khedoros1 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:37AM (#16471716)

I've done bits of assembly, but I've also studied compilers. They felt less magical to me when I learned some of how they work.

Then again, I'm primarily a C++ developer, so I'm used to the output of my build tools being non-trivial to understand.

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