• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 days ago

    Jesus. Like him or not, those guys started writing raw assembly. I have a lot of respect that they could go from nothing to writing a compiler raw out of assembly

    • Troy@lemmy.caOP
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, it’s easy to forget sometimes that they were actually pretty good coders to get started. Obviously that doesn’t always translate to corporate leadership. But hey, assembly is far better than Zuckerberg’s start (PHP?)