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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've wondered: Can you go deeper than assembly and code in straight binary, or does it even really matter because you'd be writing the assembly in binary anyway or what? In probably a less stupid way of putting it: Can you go deeper than assembly in terms of talking to the hardware and possibly just flip the transistors manually?

Even simpler: How do you one up someone who codes in assembly? Can you?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yes, you can code in machine code. I did it as part of my CS Degree. In our textbook was the manual for the particular ARM processor we coded for, that had every processor-specific command. We did that for a few of the early projects in the course, then moved onto Assembly, then C.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That was a fun class. One of the last ones I took before recursion made me change majors.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hand writing machine code and assembly was fine, but recursion is where you draw the line??

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My brain just can't write recursive code. I can read it, but not write it.

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