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  • lujaluja@chaos.social
    Nov 3, 2026, 2:58 AM

    @MaddieM4 @jcoglan lazyness is the motor of innovation. Compilers are there because people were to lazy to hack assembler multiplications and other math in those times.
    code a floating point multiplication on a machine that can add, substract and bit shift only as well as a set of bolean operations as well as jumps and comparisions.

    C is some sort of macro assembler ;-)

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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Nov 3, 2026, 3:04 AM

    @luja @jcoglan C is, often to its detriment, a lot more than that these days. I do have some goals to write a C alternative someday closer to the portable macro assembler model, but it's low on my project priority pipeline. It's not even the highest-priority *language* in my pipeline!

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