> These days most programmers don't know assembler, and increasingly don't know languaes as low level as C either. And the world didn't fall apart. Maybe the w

> These days most programmers don't know assembler, and increasingly don't know languaes as low level as C either. And the world didn't fall apart. Maybe the world didn't fall apart, but user interactions on a desktop pc feel slower than ever. So perhaps they should.