Quote Originally Posted by Vindir View Post
You might be disappointed there. Over the last ten years or so the web programming side of things has become such a huge industry that it's more likely the majority don't even know C or Java.

The numbers are abysmal if you're looking for people who've taken the time to really understand assembly well enough to read through a common disassembly or even those who are into some of the cooler more esoteric languages like haskell, ocaml, lisp, smalltalk.
Yes, so it doesn't surprise me that machine level advances are very slow and take a long time to implement. I can't imagine how long it would take to start over with a new computing technology, such as quantum.