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TheOtherHobbeslast Thursday at 12:02 AM0 repliesview on HN

I'd change the end of that list to C, Pascal, Lisp, Python.

But in the end no one learns "assembler". Everyone learns a specific ISA, and they all have different strengths and limitations. Assembler on a 36-bit PDP-10, with 16 registers and native floating point, is a completely different experience to assembler on a Z80 with an 8-bit accumulator and no multiply or divide.

You can learn about the heap and the stack and registers and branches and jumps on both, but you're still thinking in terms of toy matchstick architecture, not modern building design.