Real Programmers Write Machine Code

Real programmers don’t need machines to run their code, they simply execute it on their minds. Anything short of that is a skill issue

Real programmers flip individual bits with their fingers.

I worked for Prime, his mustache is a npm package

We're all standing on the shoulders of giants.

Real programmers flipped switches, dialed knobs, pulled levers, and pressed buttons on a machine. That's where the term "programmer" came from.

Well, in 1981 I was paid to program for the first time, in raw unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. The old Marconi Research labs had just received some Motorola 6809 microprocessors and wanted me and another junior engineer to evaluate them. There was no support, no circuit board, no assembler, just the chips. First we had to design and build an SBC to get the chips running. Then we set about building a debug monitor program, in hexadecimal, programmed to EPROMS. When done our debug monitor could load and run code from C60 cassette tapes or paper tapes. We had typical run, halt, breakpoint and memory inspection commands. All displayed on a VT100 "class teletype".

Melvin Kaye passed away in 2018.

real programmers don't use keyboard, they use punched-cards.

Real Programmers write code they still talk about in youtube videos 40 years later 👍❤

I couldn’t agree more! I am not that old at 51, and I even bootstrapped a PDP-11 by entering the instructions in octal with the switches on the front. And at least once a month I hack in 6502/Z80/68000 still — and you see that on my channel. For me it’s nostalgia and real programming. And yes even in 1990 in college we wrote Z80 in hexadecimal of the MPF-1.