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Re: Web Development with Assembly by O'Reilly books

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wjwlsn wrote:
> Oh man... the comments at Reddit regarding this are just priceless.
> "I'm sure there's some company out there that's been hobbling along for a
> couple decades with a web server written entirely in MS Word using VB
> macros."

They are pretty funny.  I also like the book's by-line: "you may as well 
just kill yourself right now."  You saw me write elsewhere I'm not a 
programmer so have no basis to judge, but I once dabbled in whatever 
brand of assembly ran on the Commodore 64, and I found it fascinating. 
It interests me far more than high level languages do, though I seem to 
have no aptitude for it.  I can only assume the guys who wrote kontiki 
(?) web server for the C-64 did the whole thing in assembly; what else 
would be small enough to fit in those 64K?

For those that like this sort of humor, there's a whole series of fake 
"Hayes mechanic manuals" for the Death Star, the At-At, and Y-Wing, and 
so on ... good stuff.  You'd think a better Death Star mechanic would 
have been on top of the "exhaust port" thing.  Probably some grizzled 
old mechanic warned his boss but was ignored ... way of the world.

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Web Development with Assembly, by O'Reilly books RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 20:45 +0000
  Re: Web Development with Assembly  by O'Reilly books "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-26 16:13 -0600
    Re: Web Development with Assembly  by O'Reilly books "jonh" <jon@nada-sub.co.uk> - 2014-02-26 21:34 -0600
    Re: Web Development with Assembly  by O'Reilly books Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-27 08:49 +0000
    Re: Web Development with Assembly  by O'Reilly books RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-27 09:34 +0000
  Re: Web Development with Assembly, by O'Reilly books Rob Myers <rob@robmyers.org> - 2014-02-28 00:25 +0000

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