[hackermom]

This method is not the least uncommon or "advanced" with those who still program assembler - in particular with the coders in the so called demoscene of lower level machines like the C-64 and Amiga - most often for creating unrolled loops to save a few cycles on removing the increase/compare/branch portion (or similar) of the loop.

[dbaupp]

If one was to be a smartass, one could say that all code is code that writes assembler. (Possibly with many levels of indirection.)