I started life mostly doing low level stuff - and still do as needed. But, it has been about 4 years since needing to do any assembler (which was for windows m

I started life mostly doing low level stuff - and still do as needed. But, it has been about 4 years since needing to do any assembler (which was for windows mobile). Embedded systems still need some of this. That said, my day to day life lives more in the realm of scripting/interpreted languages and occasionally diving into C/C++. Even in C++, though, frameworks like Boost make C++ seem higher level than it is. Today, we see a need for people that can work on Cobol and companies providing Cobol=>Java bridges. I suspect the need for the lower level programmer may occupy a similar nitch in a few years...