I'm technically old
Sun Nov 08 20:04:00 CST 2009
Big Sigh
Today our temp worker asks me, "So, what was assembler language like?"
I plucked my teeth off the desk, slapped them in my mouth, grabbed my cane, and said, "Come with me, sonny, and I'll show ya some assembler!" I then had gcc spit out the generated assembler for a simple "Hello, World!" (I haven't written in assembler since, oh, < 1995 and that was on an IBM3090 mainframe). I let the Java whipper-snapper cogitate on the arcane code, hoping he is not interested in writing anything in this. Software development is trending to higher more pleasant languages.
Then he asks, "What's a mainframe?" He asked, "was that like a super-computer."
Uh not really.
"So, most desktops today would blow it away."
"Most of today's graphics cards would blow it away" I replied.