A recent edition of [Babbage’s] The Chip Letter discusses the obscurity of assembly language. He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more often read than written, yet… ...

I enjoy assembly language programming. Ever since college with the VAX, then 8086, Z80, 68XXX, Intel 32, 64 bit, and of course ARM. Mostly just drivers, graphic subroutines, startup code and such ...