9 Feb 2004 haruspex   » (Journeyer)

Ack... nothing against johnnyb or his new book - and not to start another flamewar like the great man vs info cataclysm of 2003 - but I get the shudders thinking of x86 assembly being used as a first contact to machine language. I have never come across anything so baroque as the Intel instruction set... it's a shame that its pointlessly painful perversities are now by default a rite of passage for student programmers... There are many more fun machines to learn about :-)

But I'm not the first to say it... I'll let the always erudite /. crowd speak:

Calling X86 assembly "baroque" is like calling the Grand Canyon a "ditch".
(From a thread reviewing a different book on x86 assembly.)

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