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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because Ryan wrote it like this 10 years ago and nobody bothered to rewrite it in C.

Back then, I'd guess most developers were relatively fluent in assembly, so if there's only a small change to make, they'd just change the assembly and move on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everyone knew assembler back then. I did and I'm no developer today.

[–] ripcord 1 points 10 months ago

I...don't think that's true. Or the reason why.

Anyone doing, say, OS development, sure.