Machine code was only "scary" in the old days when you had to reboot your system when you made a small mistake.
I enjoyed having to reload everything from tape (compact cassette tape - ie the kind of thing you'd use with a home computer in the early eighties), after a crash due to my poor code. I think the term used then was "character building" ;)
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I enjoyed having to reload everything from tape (compact cassette tape - ie the kind of thing you'd use with a home computer in the early eighties), after a crash due to my poor code. I think the term used then was "character building" ;)