Programming Shucksters

If you don't regularly program in either C or C++, you don't know shit about programming. Now, it might be true that that you do in fact program regularly in C or C++ AND still don't know shit about programming, but it's never the case that someone who rarely programs in C/C++ knows shit about programming, therefore the original statement still holds true.

If you really cared about ABSTRACTION, PORTABILITY (to a certain extent), CONTROL OVER MACHINE (retaining portability thanks to abstract code), SPEED and _{not assembly}, however, you'd use FORTH instead of C/C++, which is a much better low-level language than them.