The Art of Assembly Language (1999)

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The forward humorously categorizes readers and lists reasons for learning assembly language, like course requirements or speed optimization.
It counters common misconceptions about assembly being hard to learn, debug, or maintain, arguing that experience and proper tools like libraries help.
Advantages of assembly include speed, space efficiency, capability for low-level tasks, and knowledge that improves high-level language programming.
The book is structured into seven sections, covering basics to advanced topics, and emphasizes adaptability for different courses and self-study.
Program source listings and the UCR Standard Library are available via ftp from cs.ucr.edu, with details in the '/pub/pc/ibmpc' directory.

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