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Re: Gmail eats Python

From random832@fastmail.us
Subject Re: Gmail eats Python
Date 2015-07-29 10:51 -0400
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2015, at 07:48, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> At first, there was only the machine language. Assembly languages
> introduced "mnemonics" for the weaklings who couldn't remember the
> opcodes by heart.

To be fair, x86 is also a particularly terrible example of a machine
language, from the perspective of someone imagining being expected to
memorize it. Compare it with PDP-11, which had eight registers and eight
addressing modes and a whole lot less to memorize (since each of these
appears in every instruction as a single octal digit).

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  Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-25 20:52 +0300
    Re: Gmail eats Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-25 20:05 +0200
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  Re: Gmail eats Python Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2015-07-25 18:44 +0000
  Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-25 22:42 +0300
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          Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-25 23:15 -0700
            Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 16:25 +1000
              Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 09:55 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 01:20 -0700
                Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 11:35 +0300
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                Re: Gmail eats Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-26 12:27 +0100
                Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 12:51 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 20:03 +1000
                Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 13:31 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-26 14:30 +0300
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                Re: Gmail eats Python Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 10:53 -0400
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                Re: Gmail eats Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-29 18:32 +0200
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              Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 11:47 +1000
            Re: Gmail eats Python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-26 19:45 +0000
              Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 14:54 -0700
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