A recent edition of [Babbage’s] The Chip Letter discusses the obscurity of assembly language. He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more often read than written, yet ...

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Of course, one of the problems is that each assembly language is different. For example, knowing that the x86 assembly doesn’t completely transfer to ARM instructions.

This simple example shows a limited subset of the entire HLA Standard Library, which incorporates everything from file I/O to popping the stack, switching register values and other traditional ...