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by vidarh 4478 days ago
Modern assembly less and less so, but it definitively was originally intended for humans, and for quite some time a lot of fairly substantial programs were handwritten in assembly.

When I was in my teens I even occasionally resorted to compling C code and disassembling it to work with it, because I preferred M68k assembly to the C source, and the C compilers of the time were horribly inefficient - I could often delete pointless lines and reassign registers etc. almost as fast as I could read the code...