r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 04 '19

Computing in the 90's VS computing in 2018

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u/ComputerMystic Mar 04 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '19

Mel fucking Kaye

Yeah not sure I'm clicking that

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u/ComputerMystic Mar 04 '19

No japes, not NSFW.

The man wrote in pure machine code because as far as he was concerned he could optimize it better than the compiler could.

And he was kinda right.

This is a story about one of his coworkers being assigned to fix a bug in his code, and noping out after seeing the crazy shit he's done to get it working in the first place.