C-Based languages

C is an amazingly designed language.  It's beautiful, simple, elegant and fast.
Everything a well designed programming language should be.

C++ then came along and shit all over Dennis Ritchie's masterpiece.  Bjarne took a beautiful, simple, elegant and fast language. And kept shitting on it until all that was left was 'fast'.  Dennis should of beat the shit out of him for turning his work of art into an abomination.

Then Gosling came along, surveyed the turd that Bjarne had dropped, and attempted to clean it up.    He redesigned C++ to remove the crap and attain the elegance that C had.  Unfortunately, in his cleaning frenzy, he over-simplified the language and sacrificed speed.  In the name of simplicity he removed pointers, manual memory management,  generics, operator overloading and native code compilation.  A noble effort, but ultimately just as much of a failure as C++.

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Because it's not useful and the assembler cannot infer the intent of an apparently useless instruction and might ``optimize'' away something important.
Assembly is not C, where the compiler holds your hand making you think ``omg im writing low level coeds i can totally see wat teh machine is doing!!! :D'' while it reduces your whole loop to three SSE instructions and makes your undefined behavior ridden code go fast.
When I write assembly code, I expect my opcodes mnemonics to be assembled to said opcodes.