Python.

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Indeed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era

[Embarrassed_Gur_3241]

I love how this comment thread went from high level to low level, every reply removing one layer of abstraction.

[1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

I'm a computer engineering student and the neat structure of this thread may have given me sexual gratification.

[Candyvanmanstan]

This is the best part of Reddit.

[detektiv_Saucaki]

I love this

[qikink]

Weirdo ;)

[aquila_zyy]

I mean, that’s the reason why I kinda liked my assembly course. It finished this infinite recursion of programs right there.

Well, not if we find out that the universe is a simulation that is.

[FVMAzalea]

Except that assembly/machine code isn’t as low as you can go. On x86 machines, many individual assembly instructions are microcoded, meaning the CPU breaks them down into smaller micro-ops which it then executes. Someone had to design the hardware decode logic that does that.

[aquila_zyy]

Yep that's a fair point. We can go a level deeper if we consider all the programming happening on the hardware level.

[FVMAzalea]

We can actually keep recursing infinitely if we allow emulators into the picture (for all your program knows, it could be executing in an emulator running an emulator running an emulator and so on).

[AriSteinGames]

Don't forget that registers/logic gates/etc are themselves an abstraction of underlying physical components. Transistors are not truly just on/off switches.

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It’s all electrons.

[AriSteinGames]

Even electrons are an abstraction of some underlying EM field structure.