A couple of points come to mind:

1. Assembly language needs more lines of code to achieve the same task than higher level languages, by its very nature.

2. What I call Pascal's Amendment :) - very loosely like claiming the Fifth Amendment (to the US Constitution):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_386732

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

- Blaise Pascal

As a writer, I can corroborate that. In fact, if he "had the time to make it shorter", it implies that he spent even more time to write those 1000+ pages than it would seem on first glance. Plus even more than for the same 1000+ pages if in a higher level language, since assembly is a lot more error-prone.

I don’t think it’s nuts to share such depth of knowledge. I greatly welcome the knowledge, too. I legitimately am wondering what sort of project I could take up that would be “small enough”, only do-able in asm/c, and interesting.

Think "nuts" was used as an endearing compliment there. Like "insane" in the sense of "insanely good".

wow - impressive. In the intro of the book, yes, its a book - there is a call for proof read (English and Russian) and translators, will accept work no matter how small and credit. now that's cool. when I get a few minutes between meetings i'm going to see if I can find anything to contribute and submit. I absolutely love the tone of the book! what a cool guy.

"Chapter 1" is over 400 pages. :)