From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2353cc2ebdf8fc4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-05 09:25:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!tor-nx1.netcom.ca!news1.tor.metronet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C84FF8A.3060607@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:25:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:25:31 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20813 Date: 2002-03-05T17:25:31+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article , Jano <402450@cepsz.unizar.es> writes: > >>"All of my programs are so small and so fast because I write only in the >>one, true, computer language: Assembly Language. All other languages >>reduce to assembly language, but they lose a lot in the translation. >>(Judge for yourself.)" > > Obviously he is a programming wimp, depending on a crutch like > assembly language. If he were a _real_ programmer he would be > using machine language - raw 1's and 0's like nature intended. > > And of course those programs should be entered in the only real > authentic method, toggling them in with switches on the front > panel. That's right, and using octal or hexadecimal is cheating! -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg