• pivot_root@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    14 days ago

    That assembly is for a DOS application. It would be more verbose for a modern Linux or Win32 application and probably require a linker script.

    But python turns that cute little line up top, into that mess at the bottom.

    Technically, not quite. Python is interpreted, so it’s more like “call the print function with this string parameter” gets fed into another program, which calls it’s own functions to make it happen.

    • ericbomb@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      13 days ago

      Yeah over simplifying it a bit, and that’s funny that the stupid thing I found wasn’t even stupid enough.

      But was mostly trying to impart that we should be happy for modern languages, because for every line you write in a modern language, it’ll do a dozen things on the back end for you that in assembly you’d need to do by hand.