Egads. What kind of book begins this way? What kind of author would begin the book with a forward like this one? Well, the truth is, /considered putting this stuff into the first chapter since most people never bother reading the forward. A discussion of what's right and what's wrong with assembly language is very important and sticking it into a chapter might encourage someone to read it. However, I quickly found that university students can skip Chapter One as easily as they can skip a forward, so this stuff wound up in a forward after all.