Let the visual tools do the work for you.. (Score 1)

Writing 100% assembly language just for the sake of saying "mov eax,1" instead of "int a=1" is the mark of the true amateur programmer.

Unfortunately, today's trend is just letting the compilers do the work for you. I'm not saying that C development tools are not good (sometimes they really surprise me) but blaming a guy for making an entire OS in assembler is a stupid thing to do. You're calling this guy an amateur but think of all the dudes that are dragging items with the mouse saying that they are programming..

Learning assembler leads to a better understanding of the programs that one is making, but the visual programmers too often forget about this. We reached the point where we consider that the MHz race is going to save our products but why today's Java programs are running slower on a P4 than a (let's say) C one on a 486?