📝Assembly was the first jump from binary to text

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Text has become a popular format because it’s simple, human-readable and human-writable

Assembly language was the first jump from binary to text representation. It was done as a way to make software easier to author for humans.

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• Text source code is adding friction to some programming constructs. It’s worth noting that native binary code was still more limiting than text source code (if it allows arbitrary binary embedding)