Is low level programming skills such as in assembly language, essential for a person to qualify as a programmer?

Question

Machine language / Low level programming languages.

Answer 1

If you mean as far as the title goes, than I personally don't think so. Anything like Java, C#, C++, etc, to me counts as a language that would qualify for the title.

As far as actual qualification for being a programmer, I don't think it's required to know things like Assembly, depending on the field you'd be working in, but it would be something extra to have up your sleeve.

Hope that this helps.