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by dedicate 372 days ago
For me the 'scary' part of machine code was never the actual logic. It was always just staring at that wall of hex or mnemonics and feeling like I needed a secret decoder ring!
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Yes, that does not help.

To me, it looks like some kind of complex tetris game. I guess we could maybe represent a program as such, with pieces for registers, instructions, etc.

Yet, the tooling we have is very terse, and textual.