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Assembly, used this way, just means “the words that create action at the layer below which you cannot go”. Also referred to as “metal”. Depending on where you
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Assembly, used this way, just means “the words that create action at the layer below which you cannot go”. Also referred to as “metal”.
Depending on where you are starting that could be JavaScript, or it could be Basic, or any of a number of things. In the browser it’s JavaScript.
This only makes sense if you can see that there are machines within the machines, within the machines.
- krapp 8y agoFair enough, it's a metaphor, but a fragile one that breaks down easily, as I believe it has here. Using actual assembly to defend terse coding in javascript because javascript is "assembly for the web" doesn't work.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoThat’s true.