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by dimator 2369 days ago
What a great way to put it.

What's great is that learning assembly is like taking the first step to understanding the bridge between software and hardware.

I remember a taking class that started out as confusing as hell. The first few exercises seemed really mystical and just so brittle. You'd have to be a wizard to ever get this, one thinks. But by the end of the class, we made an asteroids-like game, complete with RNG based on input timing (the time between game execution and when the user clicked start). That was really an enlightening moment.