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You bring up great information for anyone who is familiar with Microcode and might get confused by my use of the term Microprogramming here.

I'm not talking about Microcode at all here, I'm repurposing the Microprogramming term for another use.

In addition to software, I have a background in Microbiology.

This new approach to programming is far more inspired by microbiology than by traditional programming langs (I've just updated the post with a bit more to clarify that, as I realize now that this connection was completely missed and my fault for ommitting it).

Final 2 points:

1. Wikipedia actually redirects "Microprogramming" to "Microcoding". The latter is a better term for writing microcode.

2. "Computer" once meant something else too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

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You conveniently leave out that same Wikipedia article on Microcode says: "The act of writing microcode is often referred to as microprogramming, and the microcode in a specific processor implementation is sometimes termed a microprogram."

Please put some effort into actually engaging with the tools and software and ideas. If you need examples of how to do that: https://news.pub.

Your comments read as if we as a community had the duty to engage with your ideas and tools. We don't. It's commendable, but not our duty.

It is perfectly okay and ethical for some software engineer to browse your blog post, understand nothing / get confused by your terminology, and say so.

IMHO the onus is on you to present your ideas in a way that makes them understandable for at least experts.

Granted, it's not easy and I don't know what I would have done in your place.

> IMHO the onus is on you to present your ideas in a way that makes them understandable for at least experts.

Agreed. And that's why I've pushed 13 revisions since the initial publication (https://github.com/breck7/breckyunits.com/commits/main/micro...) 2 days ago. I'm learning how to better explain this. I think this video is the best attempt yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4mJh7TgICE

My suggestion to all in this thread who _feels_ there's something interesting here to record, using Loom or similar, your interactions with these ideas and tools.

I can then read your facial expressions and body language and understand much better how you are not understanding things and improve my explanations. Video is a highbandwidth form of communication. And it takes the exact same amount of time! Less time in fact, because you only need to record your interactions with the tool. You don't need to follow that up with written comments.

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