Re: OT: programming languages (was: More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues))

Stone Gordonson wrote:
> And not unjustifiably so - assembly language does enable one to write
very
> tight code (how else can one write a 2 byte infinite loop? :) ).
In our microprogramming (hoping that's the English word) labs, it was
annoyingly easy to make single-instruction infinitite loops ... had the boxen
accepted single-byte instructions it would've been trivial to make a one byte
infinite loop.

                                                              Andreas

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