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Not every programmer majored in CS. In fact, these days unless you majored in CS or EE, you probably won't get any exposure to lower level programming unless yo
by thomaspaine 17y ago
Not every programmer majored in CS. In fact, these days unless you majored in CS or EE, you probably won't get any exposure to lower level programming unless you learn it on your own. For people who get into programming via other domains (math, stats, design, etc) there's generally just not a very compelling reason to learn these things because you're going to be doing 99% of your programming in a higher level language like Matlab, SPSS, Python, etc, where memory management is largely abstracted away.
- alexgartrell 17y agoMy argument isn't for the relevance of memory management or that everyone is aware of it, just that a lot of junior people are aware of it, so it's unfair to characterize them all as "bitching" about the hard stuff.