• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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      They programmed it in assembly instead of a programming language back then so semicolons weren’t needed.

      Here is the inventor of assembly programming, Kathleen Booth.

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        Woosh

        You can make syntax errors in assembler, too. Ask me how I know.

        Assembler for a wire-core memory computer? Isn’t assembler for 8080-type systems?