📝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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See also

• Programming is limited by text source code. It’s worth noting that native binary code was still more limiting than text source code (if it allows arbitrary binary embedding)