Coding program needed
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22 Oct 2008, 14:50
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I download one "exe" file. When i open with notepad it shows me this http://synt3r.planet.ee/kool/programmike.txt Maybe someone can tell me in what language is this program made so i can modify it. Or some multicoding program what can open it for modif
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loewl, truly nolifer who made this
programmike.txt: MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS
I'm not getting why you renamed EXE to txt and hoped it will work that way, but the easy answer is that you''re not able to edit it. Unless you know sth about reverse engineering/assembler and stuff.
I mean, ye, it is doable (not that I'm able, but AFAIK it is possible;) ) to specify what compiler was used to create exe and therefore what language was used to create the file, but as long as you have exe file it gives you nothing at all, and anyway opening binary files in notepad is just ridicoulus tbh.
EDIT: oh, I see, linux's file detected that it is MZ executable, but it isn't one prolly as there is also "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." line viewable.
IIRC file detects PE executable just fine, it has to do with the reformatting the file came through before upload ;)
It would be funny if somebody would be able to read assembler from ascii letters on the fly :DD
Well, first programmers were writing programs in pure binary, and what I heard on todays lecture (:DD) is that they were adressing the variables by hand, so when they have to edit a program, and add a line at the begging, everything was getting screwed up, as every single address have to be recalcuted (+1 in this case:D) then. That was pure skill in programming ! :D
Still the most impressive programmer ever is Ada Lovelace who had written a computer program before the electricity was invented :D
wat?
Charles Babbage was trying to create analytical machine, which he never finished ( he was trying to from circa 1830 to his death in 1871. The idea behind that was really similar to todays computer, the only problem is that it was mechanical, and all data was to be stored on punched cards moving all along the computer. He even planned memory for a processor and stuff, and later when they were creating the real computers, they based on his ideas. After rereading his projects recently it was said that his machine was planned great, but it probably wouldn't be able to run fueled by steam as he planned, as it would need more power to move everything at the same time. And Ada Lovelace had written a program for it before it was finished. It would be able to calculate Bernoulli numbers or sth like that, I don't know ^^
OK, I don't think it is like that, but it would be extremely cool and unhaxpected :D
Your teacher could have been right if the program was written in an interpreted language, but this is a compiled file and is very hard to modify unless you're uberskilled.