>> How will the industry deal with people who can't hack/program at a low level? Assembly programming is still being taught as a EE/CS curriculum, so the young

>> How will the industry deal with people who can't hack/program at a low level? Assembly programming is still being taught as a EE/CS curriculum, so the younger folks know (some) assembly as well. That said, not all programming jobs require a low level programming knowledge. Now why would a Java or Rails programmer have to know ARM assembly, for example? We can leave those things to the experts :D