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Assembly language has a pretty bad reputation. The common impression about assembly language programmers today is that they are all hackers or misguided individuals who need enlightenment. Here are the reasons people give for not using assembly:
Assembly is hard to learn.
Assembly is hard to read and understand.
Assembly is hard to debug.
Assembly is hard to maintain.
Assembly is hard to write.
Assembly language programming is time consuming.
Improved compiler technology has eliminated the need for assembly language.
Today, machines are so fast that we no longer need to use assembly.
If you need more speed, you should use a better algorithm rather than switch to assembly language.
Machines have so much memory today, saving space using assembly is not important.
Assembly language is not portable."
