Fun(?) with Arithmetic, the 1980s Way
A routine arithmetic challenge, TRS-80 Model III ROM BASIC, and a return to the technology I used as a teenager in my first job.
History
The Ultimate Abstraction
For 80 years, we stacked abstractions just to manage the machine. Now, human language is the code. But when we stop auditing the output, the middle layers vanish. The circle finally closes: back to pure binary and raw, unadulterated power.