Comment by dedicate
1 year ago
For me the 'scary' part of machine code was never the actual logic. It was always just staring at that wall of hex or mnemonics and feeling like I needed a secret decoder ring!
1 year ago
For me the 'scary' part of machine code was never the actual logic. It was always just staring at that wall of hex or mnemonics and feeling like I needed a secret decoder ring!
Yes, that does not help.
To me, it looks like some kind of complex tetris game. I guess we could maybe represent a program as such, with pieces for registers, instructions, etc.
Yet, the tooling we have is very terse, and textual.