I am a fan of high-level low-level programming. I’ve been successfully mixing Smalltalk and assembly code for more than a decade.
Today’s high-level, dynamic programming languages are run on top of highly-complex virtual machines… so complex that the VMs themselves started deserving to be developed with high-level dynamic tools too!
Within Bee Smalltalk, SqueakNOS and Powerlang projects I have been trying to make live-programming of Virtual Machines more practical to application programmers.
I work at Quorum Software while also pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Buenos Aires University, where I occasionally do teaching.