Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)
by tomcam on Thursday March 28, 2019 @04:03AM
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The story features a programmer who coded in hexadecimal. It sounds a little apocryphal, but I worked with such a man myself – Tim Paterson, the creator of QDOS, which became MS-DOS. At the time he was on the Visual Basic compiler team at Microsoft, and I would go into his office while he was looking at hex dumps, which he found faster than reading disassembly.
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Re:Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)
by Gibbon1 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @04:51AM
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I haven't thought of this in years. Sr Engineer wanted me to build a 'chamber simulator'. IE simulates a pressure chamber with a bunch of valves and interlocks.
Wanted me to implement it with analog circuits and jungle logic.
I went fuck that and hand built a board with an 8051. Wrote the program in assembly on paper. Hand translated it to hex. And then used a hex editor to generate the hex file. Which I used to burn the epprom. Took two days to debug it.