Assembly code nowadays

[JohnW@Wessex]

There are two main reasons that I prefer ASM over any high level language.
1) The lack of any form of "safe programming" conventions or any other conventions for that matter.
In ASM you can create just what you want and the assembler does nothing but do what is possible to realize wish in which it is limited only by the Intel Architecture.
ASM doesn't care if you use a pointer to directly access a buffer used internally in ntdll.dll if you know it's there or read data from your PEB.

2) The freedom in use of datatypes.
There are tons of datatypes in C++ which are in essence identical, yet distinguished between merely for the sake of preserving conventional programming.

Interestingly it's for the same reasons that I was glad to start using a high level language after several years of writing in assembler.

[Lars(NL)]

Interestingly it's for the same reasons that I was glad to start using a high level language after several years of writing in assembler.

Forgive me for saying but that really is bs.
There is no way you could swap those two reasons over, stating that they are precisely the advantages of a HL language over assembler.

It is not C++, not C# and not VB where you can treat everything as a byte, word or dword.

[JohnW@Wessex]

You're saying that type safety and high level constructs etc. can give the programmer no advantages over assembler when creating an application!!!

It is not C++, not C# and not VB where you can treat everything as a byte, word or dword.

Exactly! I don't want to have to treat everything as a byte, word or dword, and I'm glad I don't have to anymore!

It's a shame to think that the last few decades of high level language developement have been such a waste of time!

[kahlinor]

One of the attractions of HLA is that it allows for flexible data representation: types, records and classes. MASM also has built in support for structures.