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Comment by stevemk14ebr | Hacker News Reader

Assembly is not trivial lol. The instruction set is easy to learn yes, but the kind of bit manipulations that occur at ASM are not easy or simple. Look at optimized division sometime. Try reverse engineering, it's an art that takes decades to learn. I do agree with "Anyone who can learn CSS can learn assembly" though, anyone can learn pretty much anything with enough time and effort.

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"Anyone who can learn, can learn."

Please forgive me for straying off topic a bit, but:

- I just picked up Jeff Duntemann's newest Linux assembly book, x64 Assembly Language Step By Step —get it from your local indie bookseller

- I want to get Dennis Yurichev's book Reverse Engineering for Beginners, a.k.a. Understanding Assembly Language, at https://www.beginners.re/

sensationalist title, ASM is much more complicated than CSS

Right. At least there's only one CSS specification isn't there? There's a whole heap of different assembler languages for different ISA's out there.

It's like comparing one apple with a bunch of oranges.

I mean.. technically it's still a simple, easy to learn language,... but doing stuff with it, requires a lot of knowledge about 'stuff' (mostly math in your case).

To steal from some other comments here... a (wood) chisel is an easy tool to learn and use.. a lot easier than a CNC machine... but building a wooden boat with a chisel is still hard.

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