Because C++ is too LGBT and not conservative enough.
Lisp is very CONServative. Perfect for Russians.
That's cool. It's not wrong to write software in the direct ISA, it's simply a matter of cost efficiency - you need a high amount of consideration to design your software to work within the plumbing of the ISA. The reason why programmers use high level languages in practice is for the purpose of allowing the software to develop more rapidly when compared to using the direct ISA.
almost entirely
so he wrote his entry code in C just like the rollercoaster tycoon guy even though its perfectly possible for a win32 application to be 100% asm, what a loser