Re: Ideas that didn't come off

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:11:48 +1300, Scout <Toothpaste@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Will you share the gory details with us?

In '93, when I was 14 and had been coding for a year or two, I had
this "brilliant" idea. Of course this was before I had internet
access, I didn't even have BBS access. So all my coding was done with
the help of the F1 button.

Anyway, as with many other brilliant ideas, I got it while on a train.
I had just began to dabble with assembler, and I thought that what if
one were to create an assembler language which wasn't tied to the
machine directly, but rather converted to native assembler before
execution... Then you could run the program on any machine, given you
had the "conversion" program. Brilliant I thought.

Coding such a thing was far above my head at that time, so I put the
idea on ice... until two years later when I found out it already had a
name :)

- Asbjørn
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