There was a coding competition at a local podunk BBS back in ~’91. I figured I would use it as an excuse to learn some assembly. The goal of the challenge i entered was to find all of the prime numbers between one and a million. Of course my goal with the assembly approach was speed and executable size. In both of those I smoked the competition by 3 to 4 orders of magnitude.

But the scoring mechanism was heavily weighted towards lines of code and the turbo Pascal entry one even though it took about six minutes to complete.

That pissed me off so much I never really messed with assembly again.