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by simmonmt 1631 days ago
Personally I preferred the basic listings to the machine language ones, with the asm listings somewhere in the middle. With the basic listings you could understand what you were typing in as you did it. With ml you’re just a monkey typing in numbers. Sure you could disassemble it at that point (if you had a disassembler), but the barrier to reaching that understanding was so much higher than with basic listings.