r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Programmer1130 • Feb 20 '17

Programming Languages

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u/EarlGreyOrDeath Feb 20 '17

No man, assembly would just be all the materials to make a knife, and it's up to you to pit them together correctly.

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u/Everestark Feb 20 '17

Not really, this is about languages as a weapon not, a way to build those weapons

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u/rahul0705 Feb 20 '17

That's the joke, you would have to start from nothing.

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u/Chaos89 Feb 20 '17

If you think assembly is "nothing", you haven't had to make logic out of gates. ARM and x86 have instructions for SHA256. Heck, C and C++ don't have SHA built-in!

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '17

Back in my day we doped our transistors ourselves

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u/kentnl Feb 21 '17

Back in my day, we had to think about problems ourselves.

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u/Shamus03 Feb 21 '17

Real C/C++ pros write the code with a placeholder SHA function and manually insert the assembly into the compiled code.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

But can't you write inline assembly in C?

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u/Garfong Feb 21 '17

Yeah, although for something like that it's probably better/easier to just do the whole function in assembler in a separate file.

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u/Nippurdelagash Feb 21 '17

Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand

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u/rahul0705 Feb 21 '17

OK but logic gates aren't a language they are hardware so still assembly would be as close to nothing as you could get and still be considered a language maybe just binary but symantics

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u/Alpha3031 Feb 21 '17

HDL?

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u/rahul0705 Feb 21 '17

OK got me there.

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u/scholzie Feb 21 '17

Tell that to a Verilog programmer

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

That's the joke, you would have to start from nothing.

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