Re:“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”
by filoeleven on Saturday December 04, 2021 @07:11PM
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And the monkeys reading the code to see what it does. I don’t recall who it was exactly but some early computing heavyweight, maybe Von Neumann, thought that any language which requires a compiler was a waste of resources.
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Re:“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”
by erik_seaberg on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:25PM
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Computers used to be so expensive that it made more sense to hire a “programmer” to convert an “analyst’s” flowchart into machine code using only a keypunch.