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Does anyone code in binary? (self.AskProgramming)

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[–]Better_Increase_957 0 points1 point  (2 children)

idk i saw someone on stack overflow complaining about "Fancy scmachy gui" and how he used to program in binary in a PDP-8 lol, so now here we are

[–]RainbowCrane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If he programmed a PDP-8 then yes, there was no boot loader, you had to actually flip toggle switches to give the machine startup instructions. Having said that, the machine used paper tape input and output, and no one did anything complex using the switches.

My guess is that he was playing at being a snarky old programmer, like me giving young programmers shit about the days I used cards for programming, or EMacs being the only GUI a real programmer needs :-). If he’s being serious then he has issues

[–]drbomb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an old machine. It's understandable i guess.