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RE: The Story of My Life so Far - Part 56 - Creating a Computer Game on the Corvette Georges Leygues: Coding
wow. not only coded in assembler but even translated to binary by hand. debugging that must have been a bitch. one of my former colleagues at the university fondly remembered the days of punchcards. I am pretty happy that I only have to work with higher level languages. we did have a compiler course at university where we had to translate from c to assembler (cant remember which assembler language it was though) I am a happy c++ and python programmer and consider myself lucky to not have to think about what happens down at the metal
I have met professional programmers that had the same feeling. They were saying that you thought carefully when you wrote or changed your code, as it was taking a long time before you could see if it was correct.
https://xkcd.com/303/
True, I atmit that i have had days when I was tired an less concentrated where i just changed random stuff and recompiled, because it was only a few seconds. I was actually just having this conversation with my colleagues yesterday. One of them was compiling to a raspberry and it took forever(3-6 hours), but most compilers are so fast nowadays, that we have started blaming it on neural networks training or simulations running. Btw how fitting that they play with swords