Also when writing C you don't have to be 'an experienced assembly programmer' to write performant and portable code. That is one of the driving points of a HLL:

Also when writing C you don't have to be 'an experienced assembly programmer' to write performant and portable code. That is one of the driving points of a HLL: you don't need to know as much minutiae to write good maintainable code. I understand getting into assembly for the purpose of learning or squeezing out that last bit of performance, but it isn't a general purpose programming language anymore and shouldn't be a default choice over a HLL for most applications.