I got really good at programming in hex code, and never
moved on to
assemblers. I tried a few, and had many of the ones popular during the
I don't get too impressed until people start reading code from looking at
scope traces.
I've dinked around enough in eprom code to make changes on the fly,but at
one time I had 40,000 lines of assembly code in a medical control
application and needed all the high level support tools I could muster.