I think the number of people who know about the lowest level of programming will remain almost constant. But as the number of computer users at many levels steadily grows, they will be an ever falling fraction. When there were only 10,000 computer professionals in the workd, all of them knew Assembler intimately, and many were on first name terms with the registers in the ALU. When there are ten million computer professionals, there will only be a few tens of thousands who still need to know Assembler. But they will always be needed.
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