Should I learn...VB or C#?

[Psyk]

Ouch.

Embedded systemns aside, I'd be surprised if anyone bothers to write hand-crafted asm nowadays. Im sure c is close enough to the metal to do anything you want, and modern optimising compilers tend to produce pretty slick asm.

People do but only very little. In some games small sections are written in asm to optimise performance. But it's a good point that you have to write very good asm for it to be better than what the compiler would come up with.

 

[anarchist]

Ouch.

I liked it actually - at the time. You were in total control of the entire computer, memory, display, sound etc. and it took me a while to get used to the idea of the computer doing things for you or, shock horror, event-driven programming!