Tech Talk: Compiling to Bytecode with Thorsten Ball
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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The Compiler Is the Place Where This Mapping Between Low Level and High Level Has to Live
The compiler is the place where this mapping between the low level and the high level has to live. It's funny that in, let's say you were a programmer in the sixties, and i wasn't, but if you were, i'm pretty sure that you would be knowledgeable in the low level instructions that the computer is able to execute. And nowadays, all of us peci that haven't learned assembly language in college or at university, we're doing the reverse process. We're discovering, like, all my high level language that's just made up out of these simple building plocks. And it's a really humbling and fascinating experience,. Like if you can see, oh
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