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Comment by esafak

4 days ago

Increased abstraction is why we don't all program in assembly any more.

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fzeindl  4 days ago

Agreed, but my point is that an abstraction should provide discernible gain of value, not merely roll a handful of operations of the same level into one.

  • Joker_vD  3 days ago

    Or, to re-word it in the words of the parent comment, that's why we don't write write programs in assembler that output even more assembler.

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