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Daishimanyesterday at 4:54 PM1 replyview on HN

Almost nobody knows how to program in assembly but we're doing fine.


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larsfayeyesterday at 5:05 PM

That's because the institutional knowledge was passed along through the act of coding. Skills that I learned in Assembly and FORTRAN are applicable to even modern programming languages...but not to "natural language."

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