I was taught assembly in the Danish equivalent of high school back in the 90ies because we had a project to build a weather station from scratch. I wasn’t sure why it was useful for me until I read these slides and saw the picture of the cat hiding in the grass.<p>I mean, come on. I get the sentiment of the slides, that our high level code runs on c and assembly and that it’s good to know what lies beneath, but this sentence I just wrote, contain more of an explanation than all of those sixty some slides together.<p>If you haven’t clicked the link yet, don’t, it’s a complete waste of your time.