And learning assembler especially teaches you where and why to avoid it. I'm teaching operating systems, compilers and machine-level programming and it amazes m

And learning assembler especially teaches you where and why to avoid it. I'm teaching operating systems, compilers and machine-level programming and it amazes me that there are courses in my field that try to avoid the machine level as far as possible - such as compiler courses that concentrate on the front-end and only talk about code generation as an afterthought or OS courses that only focus on algorithms and data structure and ignore all implementation questions.