What Are Some Advantages/Disadvantages of Using C over Assembly?

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I'm currently studying engineering in Telecommunications and Electronics and we have migrated from assembler to C in microprocessor programming. I have doubts that this is a good idea. What are some advantages and disadvantages of C compared to assembly?

The advantages/disadvantages I see are:

Advantages:

I can tell that C syntax is a lot easier to learn than Assembler syntax.
C is easier to use for making more complex programs.
Learning C is somehow more productive than learning assembler cause there is more developing stuff around C than Assembler.

Disadvantages:

Assembler is a lower level programming language than C,so this makes it a good for programming directly to hardware.
Is a lot more flexible alluding you to work with memory,interrupts,micro-registers,etc.

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