Ivar Regulski
Ivar Regulski voted up Ray Dart's answer

In the "good old days" before high level computer languages, it was necessary to make computer programs using the actual code that the machine would understand.

Given that such code is actually in binary when in the computer's store this was a bit difficult. Loading 100100110100010010010010 into a memory location was difficult.

The first step was … Read more

Ivar Regulski
Ivar Regulski voted up Ray Dart's answer

In the "good old days" before high level computer languages, it was necessary to make computer programs using the actual code that the machine would understand.

Given that such code is actually in binary when in the computer's store this was a bit difficult. Loading 100100110100010010010010 into a memory location was difficult.

The first step was … Read more