I would generally agree that writing&#x2F;manipulating assembly language is a better learning device than black-box reversing (I mentioned reversing because of the context of the article).<p>But learning to reverse assembly language is also one of those daunting tasks that turns out not to live up to its scary reputation. I wouldn&#x27;t want to suggest that you can&#x27;t just dive in and learn to reverse if reversing is your actual goal.