[wplug] OT For the old timers

[Brandon Kuczenski]

> Real programmers use Assembly.
> 
> Maybe we need a more "modernized" version now that we've got all of 
> these people who think that java is a real programming language and who 
> have no clue what a register is.  Hell, "object oriented???" (I still 
> haven't messed with any of that yet... Good old ANSI C is about as "high 
> level" of a language as I ever want to see.).
> 
> Remember this one?:  http://www2.sasquatch.com/~shad/hacker-t.html
> 
> I miss being able to write useful code that came up to under 100 bytes 
> assembled.
> 

Since we're OT, I want to brag about my PIC project, which I'm coding all 
in assembly (and PIC asm is *very* peculiar).  I wrote a hex-to-dec 
converter that converts a 16-bit number to 5-digit-plus-sign packed BCD in 
only ~120 cycles!  Without a / operation!  (it's only 76 instructions 
long)

But, to be fair, any further discussion of my project should probably be 
had off-list.

-Brandon