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by texel 5362 days ago
Sort of puts arguments about "leaky abstractions" in the appropriate perspective. Even assembly has a lot of turtles holding it up...
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tomjen3 5362 days ago
In fact on an x86 machine the byte code that programs are written in gets translated into a specialized micro code which is then executed.

So even assembly isn't the lowest language.

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