> Yes, it is. If you don't get this, you'll be a lousy C++ programmer.

Hmmm.... I mean I understand assembly, and did before I was a C++ developer, but really, you don't need to understand assembly to program C++ anymore than you need to know java bytecode to program java. If you stick to defined behavior, the program will work the way you expect it.

Perhaps you mean you need to understand assembly to debug C++ performance issues? I mean that's true of basically any language compiled to native code.