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What are the oldest peices of computer programing in use?

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  • #52
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Ooh, sorry folks...

    Wow I thought that was true for so long.


  • #53
    democrates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭democrates


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Ooh, sorry folks...
    article wrote:
    [FONT=Trebuchet MS,Bookman Old Style,Arial]In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere.[/FONT]
    A pure Oxygen atmosphere? ... Poor pencils.


  • #54
    blackgold>>
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackgold>>


    Assembly was there when the first computers where built and is still used today so i think it's safe to say thats the answer to your question.


  • #55
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    blackgold>> wrote:
    Assembly was there when the first computers where built and is still used today so i think it's safe to say thats the answer to your question.
    Ah ha but machine code pre-dates even that:D


  • #56
    blackgold>>
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackgold>>


    Thats obvious.
    Thats not what he asked.


  • #57
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I think the spirit of the question was referring to stuff that's still in wide-scale commercial use. Assembly is still used in some small capacities at the uber-scale of computer programming - writing drivers and OS kernels. No-one in their right mind writes modern applications in Assembly.


  • #58
    blackgold>>
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackgold>>


    You wouldn't be reading this now without a bios now would you :rolleyes:
    It has it's uses like all other languages.
        invoke SendMessage, hWndMCI,WM_CLOSE,NULL,NULL

    Thats how easy assembler under windows is these days.


  • #59
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    seamus wrote:
    But...but...in the movies they just write viruses, and they like infect everything, mobile phones, watches, alien spacecraft, small dogs. Computer viruses are, like, super, right?


    Yes, the reason those viruii can infect anything is because they come with cool spinny vector graphics !


  • #60
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Bah, that's not assembly. You have more than 2 arguments. And more than three letters in your function. :)

    Even BIOS coding, I wouldn't call "commerical programming".


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  • #61
    blackgold>>
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackgold>>


    Ok for arguments sake we will call it assembler.
    But thats how easy it is to program using the windows api.

    Ok so what about your graphics card drivers?
    Video games use inline assembly optimizations with their c code etc.
    You would be suprised !

    I know your trying to prove your point by saying assebly is like so

    mov eax,9
    push eax
    pop ebx

    etc etc

    but when your programing under an operating system you do use it's naitive api do you not?

    push 0
    push waitmsgtitle
    push waitmsg
    push MB_OK
    call [MessageBoxA]

    its that easy.
    the c version looks no easier (or harder).


  • #62
    DemonOfTheFall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭DemonOfTheFall


    I thought the question was programs that are still in use, not programming languages that are still in use...


  • #63
    Kai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Kai


    seamus wrote:
    No-one in their right mind writes modern applications in Assembly.

    check out this crazy fool.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_%28game%29#History

    suppose it paid off for him in the end big time but it must have been some amount of work.


  • #64
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Yea I had heard about that. The guy must be a serious masochist, but a complete genius.


  • #65
    blackgold>>
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackgold>>


    Now thats programming :D


  • #66
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    .

    OMG. Respect!

    edit: $30 million for his efforts. Nice.


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  • #67
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Hell, for $30m I'd write it in binary! :D


  • #68
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    For $5million I'd manage the project for you.


  • #69
    democrates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭democrates


    Ok not bad in fairness, but he had modern conveniences.

    Try writing the assembly on paper then typing it in with that rubbery spectrum keyboard, and deal with your emotions when your dad takes out the fuse since you weren't quick enough to come down for the dinner your mum slaved over, so you have to key it all in again later, and then your sister tapes over the program with some radio nova crap dj spouting her special request from a secret admirer who turns out to be a total gombeen who couldn't get into arts. Good old days me hoop.

    It all got much easier in the 90's with hard keyboards and mouses and pasting and copying. Still, fair play to him with his 30 million, at least the programmer got a chunk of the profits instead of being suckered into slaving to make rich folks richer. He better be on a beach in Barbados sipping a Pina Collada.


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