Cunning Beneath the Surface, Fierce Only at Home

The formulas Feng Luoyi sent over were not many, and the accompanying text only explained the train of thought. Yet those ideas made Wang Qi feel as though the clouds had parted and the sun had appeared.

"Someone in the Thousand Machines Pavilion has actually begun trying to explain the relationship between Yin Yang Yao and the Myriad Image Hexagram Script... A proper assembler and compiler." Wang Qi only needed to skim the final few lines of formulas to imagine the enormous transformation taking place across the land of Shenzhou.

A compiler was a special algorithm that translated one computer language into another—usually converting between "high-level languages" and "low-level languages."

The significance of compilers was immense. They gradually pulled "programming" out of the realm of machinery and into the realm of language, greatly reducing the difficulty of programming as a whole.

At the very beginning, only the most outstanding mathematicians understood programming. But with compilers and high-level languages, programming no longer required exceptional mathematical ability, and the process itself became remarkably simple. Everyone could become a programmer.

Earth had entered the "Information Age" largely thanks to this achievement.

The compiler and assembler Wang Qi had made himself were crude, improvised things. They could not be called convenient; they merely worked—though they were still far more convenient than directly using Yin Yang Yao to write spells. After all, in his previous life, he had only "understood" computer science rather than "mastered" it, and it was not even his main field in this life. If his abilities in this life had not been high enough, he would not even have been able to use an assembler now.

And Shenzhou was slowly developing its own "compilers."

Since the Myriad Image Hexagram Script remained the only high-level language for now, research in the Thousand