This sort of thing is often heard and there is a little truth to it, but people who think this way reveal more about themselves than the state of the art. An a

This sort of thing is often heard and there is a little truth to it, but people who think this way reveal more about themselves than the state of the art. An assembly language is just a nice presentation for machine code which regulates the load, compute and store activity of some kind of processor and in a sense the familiar "crud" part of SQL expresses similar activity in some kind of database. Both are widely used and both are also fairly old and often automatically generated from higher level abstractions. Whether or not either is modern is more of a function of what "level" you're operating. "Modern" has a different meaning to someone working at the level of Hadoop processes and Amazon services then to someone working with GPGPUs.