On Sun, Jul 26, 2015, at 07:48, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > At first, there was only the machine language. Assembly languages > introduced "mnemonics" for the weaklings who couldn't remember the > opcodes by heart.
To be fair, x86 is also a particularly terrible example of a machine language, from the perspective of someone imagining being expected to memorize it. Compare it with PDP-11, which had eight registers and eight addressing modes and a whole lot less to memorize (since each of these appears in every instruction as a single octal digit). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
