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by gpderetta 1000 days ago
>But can you show me a (single threaded) programming language where "a = 1" does not mean that on the next line, a will be 1

Generally agree with your point, but just to play the devil's advocate, in a CPU with exposed pipeline and no interlocks, setting a register to a value doesn't guarantee that a following instruction reading from that register will see the last value written.