r/ProgrammerHumor 19h ago

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 19h ago

Opinion: Every programming language that provides some kind of abstraction is weird.

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u/foonek 17h ago

Even assembly is an abstraction. Going deeper leaves you without a programming language

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u/PlanetVisitor 17h ago

going deeper will leave you without ...any (type of) language

going deeper will leave you without ... anything

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u/ttlanhil 12h ago

You have machine code, still a language of sorts, but very low level and not at all portable. But once upon a time that's what programmers wrote

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u/PlanetVisitor 12h ago

Exactly, but can that be called a language?

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u/ttlanhil 5h ago

That's the language the computer actually understands