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The quote > programming languages are meant to ease the task of creating computer programs as opposed to writing assembly by hand. is wrong: Assembly is certa
by madsbuch 6y ago
The quote
> programming languages are meant to ease the task of creating computer programs as opposed to writing assembly by hand.
is wrong: Assembly is certainly a programming language, which the author acknowledges when writing `writing assembly`.
As mentioned elsewhere, the whole blog post appears to be a troll post and should definitely not be taken as a part of a sober discussion on programming languages.
- erik_seaberg 6y agoHe should have written “as opposed to writing object code by hand,” because assembly does save some effort there. Some architectures were even designed around making assembly code more readable, rather than making it the compiler’s problem.