Nice! I actually had the opposite experience with a Commodore 64, copying BASIC programs out of a book and giving up when they didn't work right. It took me 20+ years to take up programming after that. I loved that Commodore, but programming it didn't work out for me.
Oh yes. I also remember typing nightmares with machine code. You would enter a line of hexadecimal values, and get a hash code as confirmation of correctness. After doing that hundreds of times, you would run it, and it still didn’t work :)
Programming assembler was much more fun. You programmed in a symbolic language. E.g. you used JMP to enter a sub routine. And got proper error messages from the assembler.
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Nice! I actually had the opposite experience with a Commodore 64, copying BASIC programs out of a book and giving up when they didn't work right. It took me 20+ years to take up programming after that. I loved that Commodore, but programming it didn't work out for me.
Oh yes. I also remember typing nightmares with machine code. You would enter a line of hexadecimal values, and get a hash code as confirmation of correctness. After doing that hundreds of times, you would run it, and it still didn’t work :)
Programming assembler was much more fun. You programmed in a symbolic language. E.g. you used JMP to enter a sub routine. And got proper error messages from the assembler.