Grant's statements are correct and his advice is sound. I would not waste my time writing machine code, even as a hobby (and not even if your other hobbies include juggling chain saws). It's too time-consuming, tedious, bug-prone, and eyeglass-prescription-enhancing.
Programming in assembly language will show you how the machine really works, and is challenging enough for almost anyone. And it will help you truly appreciate a powerful high-level language like Python. I've written much assembly language, on two different architectures, over the past 35 years, and I'm glad I did. But these days I work in assembly language only when necessary (legacy code). Give me Python any day! Cheers, Steve J. Martin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
