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brookstyesterday at 5:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Do modern languages and compilers count as “help”? Because I could probably do fizzbuzz in x86 assembly, but it would take a while to page that back in, and I suspect most people who call themselves developers today simply could not do it without help.


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thaumasiotesyesterday at 9:20 PM

> I could probably do fizzbuzz in x86 assembly

How? Fizzbuzz requires you to produce output; that's not functionality that CPU instructions provide.

You can call into existing functionality that handles it for you, but at that point what are you objecting to about the 'modern language'?

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