They wanted to create Windows applications. It wasn't until around 1998 or 1999 that the tools and documentation really became available to write full applications in assembly that ran under Windows.

COMP.2030 — Undergraduate Id: 008066 Offering: 1 Credits: 3-3 Description Presents the organization and operation of a conventional computer, including principal instruction types, data representation ...

Assembly was also in the news recently when the "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules" -- written in assembly -- was posted to GitHub. While ...

The principle goal of HLA was to leverage students' existing programming knowledge. For example, good Pascal programmers can get their first C/C++ program operational in a few minutes. In HLA, I ...