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No. But having met a few assembly coders over the years, every story seems to involve tons of work making something simple happen.

This guy wants a job. That pays money. Are we all going to tell him that assembler is the path to riches? Maybe for 1% of guys out there.

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This just means you haven't met enough people. You probably met some people who worked on embedded systems where they only need to use a simple set of instructions predefined by the device. But imagine doing that for your laptop. Personally I learned assembly when I was into hacking operating systems (not as in the diluted 'hacker' notion people throw around nowadays for merely being able to write a simple html code, but as in actual 'hacking' to make the OS work in ways its designer had not intended) and from my experience it is the farthest thing possible from being simple. Teaching 14 year olds to write assembly code? Read up on my analogy above.

I don't want to get into a pointless internet argument. But I have been into schools and helped teach coding. Kids pick up assembler a lot quicker than other high level languages. But they are more productive in high level languages.

You can write complex systems in either. I'm sure we could both come up with examples of complexity all day.

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