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Originally posted by TheGuru
Well 2 reasons to learn assembly...
Reason #1
You'll learn a great deal about computers.
Reason #2
C++ has its limits! If you ever have to write a program that has a problem which bumps its head on the limits of c+, you can alway's turn to assembly. Assembly is a very flexable programming language as you can even put a string into a integer variable... not saying you would want to... but you could if you did.
There's loopholes in C++ that allows the same thing as well which makes it a bad language, but from that perspective assembly is totally rotten. The limits in C++ are a nessesary dicipline for a high level language, although C++ is a hybrid