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> If this was (the only available) programming, I'd quit.

We started with nothing, remember? Just the bare metal. If this were the only available programming, I'd write an interpreter for a better language.

Never imagine that your current suite of tools is all there is.

[Someone]

It will be a challenge to make an interpreter for a better language faster than dead slow.

I would bet on a compiler for a better language instead. That way, only one person would have to wait ages and ages. I doubt the result would be fast, but it wouldn't be insanely, insanely, insanely slow, either.

[ibrahima]

I would much rather hand assemble machine code than program in sed. I imagine most people have a better understanding of how computer architecture works than how to do arithmetic and logic with sed.