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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

#1003 — Web Development with Assembly, by O'Reilly books

From the "it's a joke, but a good one" department:
Title: Joke, web development with assembly
Author: John Sokol
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:36:00 -0500
Link: http://churchofbsd.blogspot.com/2014/02/joke-web-development-with-assembly.html

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#1015 — Re: Web Development with Assembly by O'Reilly books

Oh man... the comments at Reddit regarding this are just priceless.

"http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1ykdi6/web_development_with_assembly/"

My top 10 favourites (from about 50):

"Yes! This is absolutely ridiculous... but I am intrigued and would read
the shit out of this. It's almost as crazy as writing server side code in
something wacky like javascript... oh wait..."

"No! You should compile Assembly to Javascript."

"As someone who's developing in XSLT and javascript as well as assembly
right now, I'd prefer the farkin assembler."

"Is it just me or does XSLT suck at recursion?"

"Is it just me or does XSLT suck at recursion?" (yes, it was posted again)

"If the Nazis had encrypted their communication in XSLT during WW2 they
would have won."

"Its not that hard you casuals."

"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."

"Oh, the Chimera Book is a must read."

"I'll keep sending them an e-mail about this every single day until they
release the book."

A personal note: I would *definitely* read such a book! :)

Regards,
Bill
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#1021 — Re: Web Development with Assembly by O'Reilly books

"The remarkable thing about Web Development with Assembly is not that it works well, but that it works at all..."


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#1025 — Re: Web Development with Assembly by O'Reilly books

Speaking as someone who once wrote a reporting program in MACRO-11, my
response is "So?"

(It was the only language I knew on the platform they wanted to run on and
they wanted it quickly. I wrote some macros that performed fundamentals
and wrote the program using those macros.)


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#1028 — Re: Web Development with Assembly by O'Reilly books

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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#1061

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:45:32 +0000, RS Wood wrote:

> From the "it's a joke, but a good one" department:
> Title: Joke, web development with assembly Author: John Sokol Date: Sat,
> 22 Feb 2014 18:36:00 -0500 Link:
> http://churchofbsd.blogspot.com/2014/02/joke-web-development-with-
assembly.html

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