Is assembly language dangerous? [closed]

Question

Say I write a program in assembler, and I accidentally use some wrong opcode or introduce a bug of some sort.

Would it be possible, since assembly is such a low-level language, that I could accidentally do something destructive?

Or does the operating system (any or all) keep a good level of resource management, sandboxing, etc. that would mitigate this?

Answer 1

Yes, if you write incorrect code, then bad things can happen. This is true in many languages, even high-level ones (consider System.delete("*.*") in a hypothetical high-level language). But in assembler, it's very easy to make mistakes that are difficult to spot.