“can current programmers read ‘core dumps’ understand machine language and op codes etc? just askin.”
Nope. They even mock those that can. They think “var x = 1;” is complex programming. They don’t even have to define the variable type for x, they just let the compiler do it.
“They even mock those that can.”
Just curious, why is that? I felt comfortable with Assembler because you pretty much had a one to one relationship with the source and machine language code. You were certain of what your code was executing as opposed to compiler source.