Dan Luu on Nostr: Another big one was using higher level languages. Steve Yegge has talked about how ...
Another big one was using higher level languages. Steve Yegge has talked about how Geoworks wrote things in assembly and how they ended up getting destroyed by Microsoft in part because their performance was crap compared to MS (because it's very hard to make sense of 15M LOC of assembly).
When I was in college (early '00s), most people had moved past thinking that everyone should write assembly to thinking that everyone who was a serious programmer should write C or C++.
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