> one very low Having had to learn assembly when I was young to get anything interesting done (on a C64) was such a valuable asset for my whole programming lif

> one very low Having had to learn assembly when I was young to get anything interesting done (on a C64) was such a valuable asset for my whole programming life - to know what the processor actually does allows me to see through all those layers of abstraction we have today. Let it be imperative, procedural, functional, oo, declarative, whatever, at the end of the day, on current hardware you branch on equal, or you branch on not equal or carry etc., and little more. I recommend everybody to write some fun projects in assembly if you really want to understand what's going on. My last one was John Conway's game of life and it was pure fun.