...but I had been taught by my grandfather (a lifetime professional carpenter):
- to have a big toolset at hand, including special and rarely used tools (yes, even those old one!) - he had among others a shoemaker's hammer and he did use it ocassionally;
- to be able to improvise (but with care and only when absolutely needed) - he couldn't get the whole collection of his hammers and other tools when he had to fix something at a client's place - he had no car just an old bike;
- to learn as much skills as possible, using all the tools and materials available - he accepted various tasks and was looking forward to the new and untried;
- to have a free mind for being able to experiment, when appropriate - in those times, many materials and tools were simply unaccessible here.

So do recommend I.

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And my view is, that to write structured/readable/maintainable programs (not code) in C and asm does require a similar amount of effort, as none of them supports or encourages any neat form of programming, so the programmer has to practice certain self-discipline either way. The key difference is, that asm routines tend not to fit onto the screen, which is detrimental for quick reading/understanding. There are more differences in favour of C, but none of them is directly related to structured programming.

This is not to say that there exist any absolutely perfect tool. Garbage can be written in any programming language, with more or less effort... :-)

JW