From my experience, Intel is nicer for addressing (e.g. [foo + bar * baz] instead of -foo(bar, baz, qux) is much more meaningful) and (at least nasm's) macros a

From my experience, Intel is nicer for addressing (e.g. [foo + bar * baz] instead of -foo(bar, baz, qux) is much more meaningful) and (at least nasm's) macros are more powerful as they can do looping and conditionals, which are useful for static generation of things like tables.