Real Programmers Write in Machine Code
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Programming
I recently found The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer while using StumbleUpon. Its an article that was published 25 years ago on USENET by Ed Nather.
Its interesting because the author writes about a programmer named Mel who created a highly optimized application in machine code. These are the binary instructions that are directly executed [...]