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petah please what's this mean
The game Roller Coaster Tycoon was famously hand written in raw CPU instructions (called assembly language). It’s only one step removed from writing literal ones and zeros. Normally computers are programmed using a human-friendly language which is then “compiled” into CPU instructions so that the humans don’t have to deal with the tedium and complication of writing CPU instructions.
thanks petah
To send the point home even more, this is how in python you make a line of text display:
print("Hello World")
This is the same thing, in assembly (According to a blog I found. I can't read this. I am not build better.)
But python turns that cute little line up top, into that mess at the bottom.
I like python. Python is cute. Anyone can read python.
That assembly is for a DOS application. It would be more verbose for a modern Linux or Win32 application and probably require a linker script.
Technically, not quite. Python is interpreted, so it's more like "call the print function with this string parameter" gets fed into another program, which calls it's own functions to make it happen.
Yeah over simplifying it a bit, and that's funny that the stupid thing I found wasn't even stupid enough.
But was mostly trying to impart that we should be happy for modern languages, because for every line you write in a modern language, it'll do a dozen things on the back end for you that in assembly you'd need to do by hand.
This is what gcc 13.2.0 makes of it in Linux:
So basically just loading the string and calling 'printf' from the libc.
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