• meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    If programming languages are made for humans, then explain Assembly. Or better yet, try debugging a segfault in C at 3 AM and tell me that was designed with human comfort in mind.

    Sure, some languages pretend to be human-friendly (looking at you, Python), but then you hit regex or dependency hell, and suddenly it’s like deciphering alien hieroglyphs. Let’s not even start on Lisp—parentheses everywhere like it’s trying to smother you in syntax.

    No, programming languages aren’t made for humans—they’re made for machines, and we’re just the poor fools trying to survive the translation layer.

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      14 days ago

      add t0, t1, t2 is way easier for humans than the 0x014B4820 that it could be assembled into, and what programmers had to use before assembly existed.