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>"On the other hand ... to me it always felt as if I'd waste too much time writing assembler code. I like being able to express thoughts and ideas, via code, in a more easily manner, e. g. ruby"

Old fart here. Never mind assembler. I've started with machine codes directly. Anyway early on I'd written fairly big programs using assembly. Was not too difficult. First you developing little functions, like a lot of the, and then you call those and along with using macro facilities it looks almost high level.



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