alt Hacker News35 years ago I had to program a Z80 by "assembling" programs by hand and punching hexcodes into a board. This was made easier by writing an assembler for it. This was my way into tools which took me eventually to working on a major C++ compiler.
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asdefghyk • yesterday at 11:28 PM
RE "....assembling programs by hand and punching hexcodes into a board......"
You translated you assembly language to machine language. ( Machine language is the only language a CPU can understand. )
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Yeah but that would have been the late 70's... oh my gosh that was 1991!
It was cool to do that kind of stuff, you knew exactly what your program was doing (if all went right) at all times, but it sure was a slog to get anything complex moving.