Comment by Yeask
18 hours ago
Who has ever complained that kids don't write assembly by hand?
Stop being outraged for things that are only real on your mind.
18 hours ago
Who has ever complained that kids don't write assembly by hand?
Stop being outraged for things that are only real on your mind.
Speaking of things that are only real in your mind...
Am I outraged?
And yes, there absolutely was a vocal group of a certain type of programmer complaining about high level languages like C and their risks and inefficiency and lack of control insisting that real programmers wrote code in assembly. It's hard to find references because google sucks these days and I'm not really willing to put in the effort.
You made it up, that is why you can't find it.
How's [0] or [1] for historical sources?
It's not surprising that Google doesn't turn these up, the golden era of this complaining was pre-WWW.
[0]: https://www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html [1]: https://melsloop.com/
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