> extremely inefficient use of one's time and money if the goal is higher level development Have you ever written an assembler? Have you ever written a compil

> extremely inefficient use of one's time and money if the goal is higher level development Have you ever written an assembler? Have you ever written a compiler? An Assembler is far simpler then a compiler and after building the Assembler a compiler is an extremely strait forward next step as you've already finished the first quarter of what you need to do in a compiler. You've tokenized (broken the problem into small bits) and you've generated some opcodes. That's the perfect starting place for any systems programming background and a systems programming background is the perfect place to start out at higher level languages.