It has been said that machine code is so unreadable that the Copyright Office cannot even identify whether a particular encoded program is an original work of authorship.3 Hofstadter writes, "Looking at a program written in machine language is vaguely comparable to looking at a DNA molecule atom by atom."4 As with many things, there are exceptions. There are some people who do use machine code as their primary programming language and do find such code more readable than mnemonic representations.
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