Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> It goes even further back: assembly is better than raw machine
> code because it doesn't let you see the raw byte encoding of
> your instructions ...

Are you saying, assembly has encodings (words) for instructions,
registers, etc., instead of the bitsrings (that they represent),
so you can at least separate them from the bitstring data, instead
of just having an (seemingly) endless bitstring?

> (which prevents you from jumping in the middle of an
> instruction, even though that can be useful when trying to shave
> off a few bytes).

?

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