Writing a (dis-)assembler for 8-bit code in D - blog posts

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On Monday, 19 April 2021 at 20:05:57 UTC, Brian wrote:
> The whole point of the disassembler and assembler was to answer 
> (for myself, really) if I could successfully teach someone with 
> effectively no formal CS education how to write such tools. 
> Imagine someone who never learned data structures wanting to 
> write their own tools. You could hand them this dis/assembler, 
> they could learn everything about them with just the code, the 
> blog posts, and the skills they have now. And once they've done 
> that, then you say "great, now go learn DS and algo and ..." So 
> ways to make the code more readable to that target audience are 
> appreciated and will almost certainly become the topic of their 
> own post on the blog in that series.

I'm in your target audience (never taken a CS class), and while 
I've only read the initial entry in the series, I think your 
prose is good, and your elucidations just as so. I look forward 
to reading the proceeding posts, so thanks for writing!
With regards to using D, I think it's a good choice if only for 
the fact that it appears similar to C and one may translate code 
to-and-fro with relatively little hassle, but doesn't necessitate 
the degree of circumspection that the latter demands of a 
beginner. So, perhaps, progressing from "un-idiomatic" D (i.e. 
C-like?) to more modern practices could be a sub-plot of sorts.