>> There's a reason most people don't write assembly any more.
>
> It's called pipelined instructions with multiple simultaneous units that
> require operations in a certain order in order to be most efficient, and
> sometimes even a strategic NOP just to get the instructions to pipe
> properly. A compiler is faster at implementing these rules than a person.

This only matters if you're interested in performance.

If you're interested in reliability and maintainability, there's the 
fact that there is almost no machinery to stop you shooting yourself in 
the foot.

If you're interested in portability...

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