alt Hacker NewsAssembly ain't a language. Differs for every chip microarchitecture. Doubt there's many folks who know voyager 1 assembly
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TheSkyHasEyes • 10/02/2024
> Assembly ain't a language. Differs for every chip microarchitecture.
Your last sentence explains why ASM is a language. ASM compiles to machine language.
Assembly is a language. It’s human readable, not machine readable. Modern assemblers support all kinds of higher level constructs through macros.