10 Assembler myths

1.Assembler is unportable.
2.Assembler is hard to learn.
3.A compiler can be as fast as assembler.
4.Code is harder to debug within assembler.
5.Assembler does not allow high-level constructs.
6.Assembler requires writing many times more code.
7.Assembler does not support abstraction.
9.You need to know the inner workings of a CPU to write best assembler.
10.Assembler lacks libraries or cannot use foreign interfaces.

9-10 i can maybe see
But how is assembler (other than LLVM 'assembler') portable?  I mean you can PORT it, but it's less portable than pretty much anything else.