> Personally, I think this understanding is so important that I would say 
> *all* programmers should, at one point or another, learn to write 
> complete programs in assembly language, by hand.  Not that they should 
> use machine language for their jobs, but because knowing how computers 
> *really* work will help them write better programs in the long run.

I never went lower level than C. (well, I have looked at the 
assembly-like code for LEGO RCX, but I doubt that counts; there aren't 
even pointers there) I think some day I should learn asm...

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