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by Sanddancer 3882 days ago
I am disappointed. I opened this article expecting a myriad of MOVs and JMPs, PEEKS and POKEs, &s and *s, <s and +s, DOs and GO TOs. These are all languages that borrow a lot from each other, and as such look mostly the same. We need some variety in here, some zing. Give some FORTRAN IV, some COBOL, some BASIC even, and it could be interesting, especially if you add in how to do it with raw io; sysfs is ugly and boring.
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It wasn't clear in the original post but this was really meant for embedded Linux platforms that already have GPIO mapped via SysFS so assembly wasn't considered. I've updated the front matter of the post to reflect that. I don't know if Pascal is considered 'zing' these days, but I added that as an example. Thanks for your comment.