Meeja Topic Du Jour

[amcdonald]

I think the clue is in the name, no?

I thought it was just a subset of SGML, it's a markup language not a programming language

[Zoiderman]

I thought it was just a subset of SGML, it's a markup language not a programming language

The article headline just says computer language, which it is. Didn't read the article, so don't know if they are making claims inside

[alluvial]

You can't beat handcrafted assembler.

Now that is a language, kids of today don't know how easy they have it...

[BrilloPad]

Now that is a language, kids of today don't know how easy they have it...

I am sure Turing said "assembler. kids of today don't know how easy they have it".

[SupremeSpod]

I am sure Turing said "assembler. kids of today don't know how easy they have it".

Was that before, after or while he was biting the pillow - apple, Shirley?

[VectraMan]

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for t'internet

HTML5 is three languages, none of them very good, bodged together to form a kind of hideous mutation not even a mother could love.

[alluvial]

Aye.

Real Programmers used to program down to the bare metal.

Probably in octal.

Nah, the real men progammed the computer by building it from scratch using valves and binary. (Was that the original hardcoding?)

[Sysman]

Aye.

Real Programmers used to program down to the bare metal.

Probably in octal.

In my first IT job they had an old clankety clank machine that they programmed straight in executable code.

I never touched it myself.

The hardware engineer was in his sixties and did a lot of mechanical fixing.