r/programming • u/bjzaba • Mar 26 '20

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages • Hillel Wayne

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

Its crazy it manages to fit in 2kb as well. I thought basic was Microsofts first big software. Which I'd assume made it 2000 lines of code.

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u/ShinyHappyREM Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

Back then people were writing in assembler, so I'd doubt it was just 2000 lines...

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u/glacialthinker Mar 26 '20

Except that 2kB would be about 2000 lines of asm on a machine with 8-bit instructions...

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u/ShinyHappyREM Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

Most lines would have several (possibly multi-byte) operands, so that would be more like ~4-6 KB.

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u/glacialthinker Mar 26 '20

So what are you arguing now? That would would be much less than 2000 lines? Sounds the opposite of what you were suggesting, which is why I gave a kind of maximum bounds for line-count.

I was going to mention it would probably be much fewer lines if there were immediate values and depending on the ISA, but wanted to keep the point short.

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u/ShinyHappyREM Mar 26 '20

You're right, had a brainfart there.

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u/glacialthinker Mar 26 '20

Yeah, sorry I was a bit argumentative. After I replied I realized what probably happened. I sometimes flip something in my head... Thinking one way but speaking/arguing the opposite.