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LarsDu88 61 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrot...

Assembly ain't a language. Differs for every chip microarchitecture. Doubt there's many folks who know voyager 1 assembly

criddell 60 days ago | [–]

Assembly is a language. It’s human readable, not machine readable. Modern assemblers support all kinds of higher level constructs through macros.

TheSkyHasEyes 60 days ago | [–]

> Assembly ain't a language. Differs for every chip microarchitecture.

Your last sentence explains why ASM is a language. ASM compiles to machine language.

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