On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:51 AM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: > 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).
6809 was the best machine language. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
