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Taking programming languages out of the loop

The first computers were designed with programmers in mind.

Although the instruction-sets of those early computers were clearly constrained by the hardware technology available at the time, they were also structured so as to make programming easier.

A limited number of registers, instructions and addressing modes made writing software much easier when there were no high-level languages and the code had to be hand-assembled from op-codes into raw binary, octal or hexadecimal values.

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