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Years ago I emailed the creator of Exapunks (a puzzle game where you write assembly in a made up instruction set) and asked why he used AT&T syntax instead of Intel syntax. He said it seemed more intuitive for English speakers.

> This is usually only brought up by people who have prior assembly programming experience, which makes me think we made the right choice.




I haven't played Exapunks, so I can't say, but about AT&T vs Intel: maybe the order of "mov source, destination" and "sub subtrahend, minuend" is easier, since it lines up with English phrases like "move this into that" and "subtract this number from that number," but everything else about Intel syntax was easier for me when I first learned assembly.




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