Re: Real programmers program in machine code

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From: ma... jim frost
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 18:37

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CC...@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Mark Kosten - Computer Centre, La Trobe Uni.) writes:
>back in the Good Old Days, when the
>term "software" sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of
>drums and vacuum tubes, Real Programmers wrote in machine code. 
>Not Fortran.  Not RATFOR.  Not even assembly language.  Machine
>code.  Raw, unadorned, inscrutable, hexadecimal numbers.

Hex?

jim frost
saber software
ji...@saber.com

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