<TID> Re: Javascript question: Looks easy

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:27:07AM -0600, Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 07:44:30 +0000 Terence McCarthy
> <saki.uk at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:14:40 -0400
> > Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, I have done enuf of javascript this week to make my eyeballs
> > > hurt. However, there is just so much in javascript that I don't
> > > think I'll ever stop being a newbie.
> > > 
> > > I just don't feel warm and fuzzy with these high level languages.
> > > This is a long way from assembly language on a Z80!
> > 
> > God, I tried assembler back on an Acorn BBC micro- it certainly
> > didn't make me feel warm and fuzzy!
> > 
> > It was useful though.
> > 
> 
> I still earn my living from IBM 370 Assembler code which to many is a
> book with seven seals.

Dang, that puts me into the past, mentally at least.  Those were the
days.  I would not have guessed that anyone was still doing much of
that.  I still dazzle the clueless sometimes with simple feats of
80x86 assembler -- you know I seem to be the only one in this entire
university who can use the high-res cycle clock for timing on the current
machines?  And all it takes is about 5 lines of header file to train
gcc to do it.  I think most of the students think C _is_ assembler.

My best memories of the days I was doing that are of the spoofs on op
codes that used to circulate, of which my favorite was the HCF instruction,
which stood for "Halt and Catch Fire", with the runner-up XPI
"Execute Programmier Immediate".

++ kevin


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