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[โ€“] Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Technically assembly is a human-readable, paper-thin abstraction of the machine code. It really only implements one additional feature over raw machine code and that's labels, which prevents you from having to rewrite jump and goto instructions EVERY TIME you refactor upstream code to have a different number of instructions.

So not strictly the bunch of bits. But very close to it.

[โ€“] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Technically correct. The best kind of correct.