[ebarker]

Go get a job maintaining someone elses assembly code. It will give you a new perspective on things.

Another neat exercise is to write code in C or Ada or something and run it through a really good compiler and look at it's output. The good compiler writers have advantage over a run of the mill assembly programmer. Interesting exercise.

And to add a note to Greg's comment about hitting the bottom line .... I want processors to work for me, not the other way around.