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Assembly is actually pretty simple in that there just aren’t that many commands that are commonly used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listing
by 300bps 4y ago
Assembly is actually pretty simple in that there just aren’t that many commands that are commonly used.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings
For example, JSR becomes pretty self explanatory when you know it stands for Jump To Subroutine.
The complexity is more in that you have to do many simple tasks on your own. It may take 50 lines of code in Assembly to do something that Java can do in one line of code.
- sundarurfriend 4y ago> The complexity is more in that you have to do many simple tasks on your own. And, especially while reading it, you have to keep track of a lot of the program state in your mind yourself, and that gets messy when you go beyond small, single-purpose chunks of code.
- ComputerGuru 4y agoAssembly is easy enough to write, but a nightmare to try to understand what someone else - or you - previously authored without great comments.