Answer from cs61c-eq (Nicholas Hwang 16732453) for Question 2
If the C programmer still could program regularly and have the compiler do the work behind the screen, the impact would be minimal...the program is still programmed normally, just compilation would take a lot longer than it normally would. If compining assembler, linker and compiler changed how code had to be written (such as needing the programmer to take into account the conventions of the assembler and linker) then the impact would be great.