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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 11:01:19 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Assembly is crowned the most difficult language to learn on a beginner level followed by Haskell. So this meme seems accurate :P YMMV.

   • Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 11:16:02 JST Weasel

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     @nixCraft

     COBOL was my first high-level language. It didn't rot my brain because (fortunately) I had already been programming in assembly language.

     Also, I found assembly languages far easier to learn than, for example, PL/1.

   • Outfrost (outfrost@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 14:03:04 JST Outfrost

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     @nixCraft Assembly language isn't difficult, and if you use comments you're almost in C. i386/amd64 architecture manuals are ass to try to use for learning, so that's probably where a lot of nightmares come from. But for me C++ is actually way more of a torture.

   • slash (agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 22:27:42 JST slash

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     @nixCraft I've never understood why people find assembler hard. This was the *easiest* course I ever had. I wrote all my code in assembler for years. It's easy to write, easy to debug, and produces better code.

     What moved me away were all the abstractions that got layered onto computers over time. I could no longer map from mnemonic to CPU instruction. They just don't work like that any longer.