3. Here is why...

• I just don't consider a utility program that's 4 megabytes big, and contains all sorts of files that the author didn't create, to be really great software.
  Do you?

• Steve Gibson, Gibson Research Corporation.

• Assembly language programs contain only the code that is necessary to perform the given task.

• Assembly gives direct and complete control over system hardware:

  • Writing device drivers.

  • Operating system design.

  • Embedded systems programming, e.g. aviation industry.

  • Writing in-line assembly (mixed-mode) in high-level languages such as C/C++, or hybrid programming in assembly and C/C++.