From what I gather _machine code_ has become more low level, while _assemblers_ have adopted features from "high level" languages. Not that I would know, the l

From what I gather _machine code_ has become more low level, while _assemblers_ have adopted features from "high level" languages. Not that I would know, the last time I wrote assembler it was for the Z80, and the last time I wrote machine code it was for the 6502.