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tpmyesterday at 9:36 PM1 replyview on HN

> How can anyone understand software if you don’t know assembly?

I'm genuinely curious how someone who never wrote a program in assembly, or debugged a program machine instruction by machine instruction, can really understand how software works. My working hypothesis is most of them don't and actually it's fine because they don't need it.


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marshrayyesterday at 11:10 PM

"Assembly" is just another virtual machine instruction format sitting atop another, mildly better-hidden, pile of abstractions.

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