How difficult is it to master a programming language?

Mastering a programming lanaguage depends on a number of factors, including previous experience. But what does it mean to master a programming language?

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Programming Language of the Month: Assembly Language

Kicking off a series of thoughts on programming languages.
Assembly language is slightly higher level than the raw 0’s and 1’s of machine code- there is the immediacy of cause-and-effect: write an instruction to set a bit on an output port and you can see the instruction being executed.

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