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"Your knowledge of assembly language will help you write better programs, even when using HLLs."

Assembly was the first real coding I did after learning BASIC. It taught me:

1) How to build and structure an application - from intrinsics like 'divide' upwards, I now seem more able to build large/complex systems than people who only learnt HLLs

2) Fundamental datatypes like DWORDs that have helped me optimise performance of HLL apps

3) To appreciate the heavy lifting provided by a language like Ruby - and an understanding of how it does what it does

Application developers that have never worked on the bare metal are poorer for it.



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