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I can ignore x86 assembly just like I can ignore French: the graphical structure (i.e., indentation) of an x86 program gives away nothing, just like a paragraph of French gives me no immediate sense of its meaning. In either case, I could probably puzzle out the meaning with intense reading, but the mere presence of the text does not give it away.

My C solution, on the other hand, has a distinct graphical structure which would indicate, even to people for whom C isn't their "native language," a lot of the meaning of the text with merely a glance.



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