Very few people write in assembly language today, at least not entire applications. We've all since moved up the stack of abstraction to using C, or one step above that into Perl, Python, Java, etc. The answer is to keep moving up the stack to higher levels of abstractions, such as 'channels'. In a way I wish that Moore's Law would grind to a halt and we could get back to doing computer science.
Joe was quoting Steve Yegge on the Relationship Between a Language and the Bloat it Engenders, but this bit is his.