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		mattgodbolt on July 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An IRC Bot in Arm Assembler Assembly used to be all the rage. At Uni I couldn't afford a C compiler (and there were no free versions for my platform, RISC OS) so I ended up writing a whole IRC Client, GUI and scripting language all in ARM assembler. A few tattered notes of it at: http://xania.org/200711/irbasic but sadly most is lost to time.

pjmlp on July 17, 2014 [–]

I used to follow with joy of a kid that gets new toys, the release of each new processor and the new set of available opcodes.

Nowadays even C++ is simple, compared to mastering all the opcodes and their side effects in latest generation processors.

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