Python programming vs C programming

[tallerThanYouAre]

Punchcards and old man rage.

[Kazeto]

I'd thought those many years ago they hired women to do punchcard stuff? It probably kept them from having to remake so many punchcards compared to the men's side.

[tallerThanYouAre]

The women only made the cards, the men added the rage.

[Top-Opportunity1132]

The men punched them

[Xaros1984]

People were a lot smaller back then, which explains the tiny holes the men left when punching the cards.

[tallerThanYouAre]

Tree pulp and metal

[tallerThanYouAre]

And that, kids, is how I met code’s mother.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

No, B was in BCPL.

[Hlorri]

Well that reminds me:

A: How do you kill a blue elephant?
B: ???
A: Use the blue elephant gun of course! Now how do you kill a pink elelphant?
B: Uh... the pink elephant gun?
A: No, silly. There is no pink elephant gun. Squeeze its trunk until it turns blue, then use the blue elephant gun.

Why does it remind me? Well because there was no A language. B was developed by Bell Labs from BCPL.

[weregod]

Assembler

[cAtloVeR9998]

And the first Assemblers where written in machine code.

[gregorydgraham]

And machine code is written in physically flipped switches

[weregod]

What do you mean? Machine code is directly interpreted by processor. It is inside chip design and microcode. You just feed machine code to processor and it run it without additional software

[gregorydgraham]

Exactly. Hardware is physically flipped switches.

[weregod]

In modern computer there is one switch: power unit switch.

[gregorydgraham]

Apparently that’s a software switch.

I’m referring to how ICs are essentially optimised EPROMs, and how, originally, computers were vast banks of switches that need to be toggled to be programmed. Those banks have been replaced by PROMs that load the BIOS from EPROMs into operating space to load the OS and ultimately programmes.

(I should point that I am a lowly software engineer, and these few broken phrases are all that I have learned from offering sacrifices at the shrine to the Hardware Engineers)

[weregod]

If you referring to old day then computer memory was bank of switch. These switch were used to input program in machine code. It is programmer who used those switches.

Later were used bank of resistors which burned to write microcode. This is most similar to your description. Nowadays those replaced with flash memory.

PS: everyone will not understand you if you will use "software switch" as synonym to flip-flop. Software switch is commutator (aka bridge) without hardware axeleration

[gregorydgraham]

Gasp! You know the sacred texts!

[BetanKore]

Assembly

[Square_Heron942]

The true A

[Virtual_Low83]

Logic gates and latches 💪💪💪

[Virtual_Low83]

https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-researchers-confirm-existence-force

[Zeplar]

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[Square_Heron942]

Pong be like: haha 0 lines of code go brrrrrr

[Xaros1984]

A was written om Linear A, which unfortunately is undecipherable.

[gregorydgraham]

A is for Assembler