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:: Those 2,800 '''RR''' books translate to roughly 168 linear feet or so. That's a good chunk of shelf space. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 23:06, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
==Commodore BASIC Landmark==
As of today, August 31, 2020, the alphabetical categorization of [[Commodore BASIC]] tasks now represents the entire alphabet. Woo hoo!
[[User:RR-GraphixGuy|RR-GraphixGuy]] ([[User talk:RR-GraphixGuy|talk]]) 22:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
== Adjusting the Goals of Task "Machine Code" ==
Personal notes for future use in case I need them...
Citing the mission of RosettaCode from the landing page (emphasis added):
<blockquote>Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in ''as many different languages as possible'', to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another.</blockquote>
With that goal in mind, I find it interesting that the original task is limited to generating and executing opcodes for a very specific processor architecture (32-bit x86?). One of the things I like about RC is to compare the evolution of computer programming from a wide variety of systems and architectures for a single task. Just because a particular architecture or programming language isn't used in mainstream production anymore doesn't mean that nobody studies it, and as time goes on, some languages that were once considered popular will fall out of favor for newer, improved languages. The days of Commodore 64 programmers using BASIC to POKE machine code into memory and then call for its execution may not be common today, but it happened constantly during the machine's heyday and is part of its history. (Yes, it's the very reason I am addressing this issue now.)
What is the true goal of this task? To get the processor to execute the architecture-specific machine code given, or to illustrate how to get ''a'' processor to execute ''some'' native machine code within a higher level language, which still achieves the same end result (i.e. add two numbers together and show the result)?
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