What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days?
vabmit: I've done it for cryptography code and cryptanalysis code.  Specifically, optimizing code to take advantage of specific instructions available in certain processors or to make use of vector registers and instructions.  I wrote my programs in C and then went back and wrote assembly for parts of the code that could deliver a significant overall speedup with hand optimization.One place I did this was various RSA Challenge attack clients.