In the beginning, there was the Assembly
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In the Beginning of the computer world, there is a Word. It's the Assembly language.
It's so close to the machine that it's hard to call it a language.
But it's a weird language and it's not simply binary code with 0's and 1's.
The assembly exists since the beginning.
Since the assembly language is very close to the machine language, it's possible to control computer behavior in a very specific manner.
Therefore learning the assembly language is more like learning how to speak directly to the computer hardware than compared with programming.
Studying computer itself helps us to figure out how every programming language works on a computer.
And you can see the principles common to all programming languages.
So I'm sure, you will be able to see programs as assembly code as just like Neo was able to see the world as code.
It's really fun.
You will discover the new world inside of the computer that is actually composed of many layers.
Learning assembly is like visiting the deep layers of computer, so it make you have intuition to understand and handle the complexities of a modern computer.
I cannot say that you would be super programmer if you know the assembly.
But the excitement, I felt when I saw the inside of computer via assembly, drived me to the Linux kernel and computer architecture.
I want more people to have the chance to see the other aspect of the computer world.
I want to be like Morpheus who gave the Red Pill to Neo_ ;-)