Quote:
|
machine code is in fact a sequence of bytes, but not human readable in the slightest.
|
Quote:
|
Actually, there are some people who can read it. Very very very very few. But I know at least one. Its pretty ridiculous.
|
It depends on the machine (as well as the people).
Nearly 30 years ago, I didn't need a disassembler to read 6502 opcodes -- 8-bit machine with small instruction set.
Today, 20 years after last touching a 68K machine, I still remember the opcode for the NOP instruction.
Nowadays, even RISC machines have sufficiently complex opcode and operand encoding that I don't even try -- don't need to and there's no glory or money in it if I could.