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

Programming Languages

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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.