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		calibwam on April 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Which programming language should I learn first? > To be a god which can do everything--Assembly A god that uses more time than necessary doing some tasks, but when they run, it's so fast.

IsTom on April 29, 2012 [–]

As for current architectures, humans are really bad at writing assembly. Advanced compilers like gcc are much better at it.

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