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The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:05 pm
by dandymcgee
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
Interesting story of how real programmers worked before "high-level" tools like compilers existed.
Re: The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:21 am
by Skomakar'n
I've read this before. I love it. I need to bookmark it this time. Thanks for the link!
Re: The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:14 pm
by dandymcgee
This one is also a good read for anyone who has ever taken a programming history course.
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/b ... wrong.html
Re: The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:48 pm
by THe Floating Brain
I want to write in Machine Code now XD
Re: The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:31 pm
by Nokurn
Story time?
When I was younger (maybe 11 or 12), I was in the process of learning php (I chose php for my server-side scripting language because it was similar to C, which I already knew). I'd just realized you could make CLI programs with php, so I tried coming up with programs that I could make for the command prompt. One of the programs I made was something for doing hex dumps and reversing hex dumps (and you could do stuff like commenting). I did it on an exe file and realized, you could totally write programs like this! So I ordered a copy of the Intel architecture manuals (for the instruction set reference) and went to town making little programs in machine code. Of course, I ended up with COM executables instead of PE (and wasn't aware of it at the time), but it was fun. I felt like such a badass. That's where I really started to think like a computer. I can also say that I learned machine code before assembly, which I find pretty cool.
Re: The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:18 pm
by THe Floating Brain
Nokurn wrote:Story time?
When I was younger (maybe 11 or 12), I was in the process of learning php (I chose php for my server-side scripting language because it was similar to C, which I already knew). I'd just realized you could make CLI programs with php, so I tried coming up with programs that I could make for the command prompt. One of the programs I made was something for doing hex dumps and reversing hex dumps (and you could do stuff like commenting). I did it on an exe file and realized, you could totally write programs like this! So I ordered a copy of the Intel architecture manuals (for the instruction set reference) and went to town making little programs in machine code. Of course, I ended up with COM executables instead of PE (and wasn't aware of it at the time), but it was fun. I felt like such a badass. That's where I really started to think like a computer. I can also say that I learned machine code before assembly, which I find pretty cool.
Badass
And thought it was cool that I started learning C++ when I was 12