I'm a programming major myself, but personally I have never programmed anything in binary. Regardless when I was required to take a mandatory assembly class, I gained a lot more respect for those who had to program in the lower level languages.
I had to do my own memory management, work with reregisters to perform any and all math, and if I was outputting to a file if I missed one byte, I screwed up the entire output.
Did people that had no other choice but to code in binary eventually go insane?
2006-11-09 12:47:41 · 3 answers · asked by D 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
I code almost exclusively in ASM and binary for most CPU architectures out (very old through new), and haven't gone insane because of it. Thats not to say I wasnt insane before I started programming. :)
2006-11-13 03:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by The Great Nateholio 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably not.
Those people were pioneers in programming and computer. Chances are, they had a hand in designing the procedures for writing in binary.
Also, the things they did back then aren't nearly as complex as what people are expected to do now (they were probably just looking for a way to write a good programming language)
2006-11-09 20:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, they moved on to the friendlier programming languages when they came up.
2006-11-09 20:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by Jordan L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋