Yes, who haven’t had a glass of red wine, relaxing music and some inline assembly…

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He says this because he kind of ignorantly (his own wordage) wrote in machine code for quite some time before realizing assembly was a thing. So for Linus inline assembly is to machine code as python is to c for a lot of us.

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What does he mean by machine code? Like assembly files or literally 1s and 0s?

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He was probably working with bytes and not individual bits, but yeah. He basically wrote executables directly (to my understanding).

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He didn’t realize assembly was a thing, so he was actually writing machine code instructions

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One of my oldest programming books is all about using machine language to program.

https://vintageapple.org/apple_ii/pdf/Apple_Machine_Language_1981_(raw-bw).pdf

At the time, even assemblers cost money. I remember saving up for Merlin which is an assembler for the Apple II.

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