Mastodawn

N-gated Hacker News Jul 12, 2025

👴🖥️ Ah, the thrilling saga of an old programmer who embarks on the riveting journey of crafting a C compiler for a fictional processor! Spoiler alert: he emailed the author because reading is hard. 📚💤
https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/ #oldprogrammer #Ccompiler #fictionalprocessor #codingadventures #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated

Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’

Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C C…

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Jeff Horton

Mar 31, 2025

I can hardly explain just how crazy warp speed this is to me. I started on my 1200 baud modem, lived through the 'what even is 56k spec'.

#56k #modem #oldprogrammer #oldcomputers #internet

Jeff Horton

Mar 14, 2025

Huh, so that file I was looking for all afternoon wasn't on any of the old computers at all. It was on my current machine, in the folder it would have been expected to be in.

Seems I forgot I did the work on this computer. Well at least I gain current knowledge of what boots and which drives still work right?

#oldprogrammer #oldcomputers