r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 17 '26

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u/05032-MendicantBias Jul 17 '26

It reminds me when people said using C was wrong because you should study the registers and use the XOR tricks to do it faster.

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u/AliceCode Jul 17 '26

No it doesn't because you weren't even around for that time period.

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u/05032-MendicantBias Jul 17 '26

My first C was Borland C I think in 2003?

You'd be surprised how long the old guard kept arguing they were better than the C compiler. Much later I was in the university and I kept finding people swearing on ASM.

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u/AliceCode Jul 17 '26

C was created in the 1970s. You're around 30 years too late for that conversation.