>> This only matters if you're interested in performance.
>
> Why else would you use assembly?

Perhaps because you need to perform specific hardware-level operations 
that C doesn't support. (E.g., selecting a different processor mode or 
something.) There's usually a few bits of the OS written in assembly 
because they do very low-level stuff.

> There are plenty of languages that allow better maintainability.
>
> Assembly isn't portable by its very nature ;)

...which leads us back to my "there are *reasons* why nobody uses 
assembler any more". ;-)

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