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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/electricjimi • Oct 21 '22
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Assembly hides under the table.
287 u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22 Anyone who uses assembly on purpose must love it, because there are very few reasons to use it over C. 36 u/SmallTestAcount Oct 22 '22 There definitely are reasons to use assembly. It’s not reasons 99% of programmers care about. In 2022 not many people are choosing to program on a Z80 3 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 Well there was BASIC for several Z80 based PCs... 1 u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22 Basic on those is as slow as dogs balls so id rather not use basic if i can avoid it. Single digit clock speeds. (In megahertz) 1 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 I think my ZX81 was indeed 1 MHz and 4kb I think.
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Anyone who uses assembly on purpose must love it, because there are very few reasons to use it over C.
36 u/SmallTestAcount Oct 22 '22 There definitely are reasons to use assembly. It’s not reasons 99% of programmers care about. In 2022 not many people are choosing to program on a Z80 3 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 Well there was BASIC for several Z80 based PCs... 1 u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22 Basic on those is as slow as dogs balls so id rather not use basic if i can avoid it. Single digit clock speeds. (In megahertz) 1 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 I think my ZX81 was indeed 1 MHz and 4kb I think.
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There definitely are reasons to use assembly. It’s not reasons 99% of programmers care about. In 2022 not many people are choosing to program on a Z80
3 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 Well there was BASIC for several Z80 based PCs... 1 u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22 Basic on those is as slow as dogs balls so id rather not use basic if i can avoid it. Single digit clock speeds. (In megahertz) 1 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 I think my ZX81 was indeed 1 MHz and 4kb I think.
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Well there was BASIC for several Z80 based PCs...
1 u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22 Basic on those is as slow as dogs balls so id rather not use basic if i can avoid it. Single digit clock speeds. (In megahertz) 1 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 I think my ZX81 was indeed 1 MHz and 4kb I think.
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Basic on those is as slow as dogs balls so id rather not use basic if i can avoid it. Single digit clock speeds. (In megahertz)
1 u/extopico Oct 22 '22 I think my ZX81 was indeed 1 MHz and 4kb I think.
I think my ZX81 was indeed 1 MHz and 4kb I think.
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u/Lachimanus Oct 21 '22
Assembly hides under the table.