A preference for deterministic tools over probabilistic tools

from blog The Boston Diaries, | ↗ original
Last month, I added code to my assembler to output BASIC code instead of binary to make it easier to use assembly subroutines from BASIC. But I've been working on a rather large program that assembles to nearly 2K of object code, and it takes a bit of time to POKE all that data into memory. So I took a bit of time (maybe an hour total) to add a...