An article I wrote a while back, largely about how assembly is not dead: http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1911 http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1911 That proj

An article I wrote a while back, largely about how assembly is not dead: http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1911 http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1911 That project was using a CPU costing less than twenty cents to control the power of a consumer product. Code space mattered a lot, and doing the project entirely in a high-level language would have doubled the part cost. When you're talking quantities in the tens of millions, saving ten or twenty cents on the cost of goods is a Big Deal.