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Originally posted by DimViesel
Today that would seem like an extreme and outlandish sequence of languages to learn and the learning curve could be described with similar terms! 
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I suppose that depends on your definition of outlandish. I've yet to encounter a programming language that I wasn't able to pick up in the space of one to two weeks. Often, I spend more time fighting the quirks of the support package and compiler than I do the language (for example, it took me almost two MONTHS to get even PASSINGLY familiar with all of the crap in Borland's Object Windows Library or the Microsoft Foundation Classes). In any case, all ASM languages that I have experience with have 60 or less basic commands and twenty or less different rules for combining the commands to create the individual instructions (the 6502 had 55 instructions TOTAL, including all of the variations for addressing modes; the 68000 had something like 4,000; I've not bothered to count the x86 instructions ).