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Right, but all programming language constructs are eventually reduced to assembly code. So, strictly speaking, as long you understand assembly, you don't need a
by runeks 10y ago
Right, but all programming language constructs are eventually reduced to assembly code. So, strictly speaking, as long you understand assembly, you don't need any language constructs at all.
This fact doesn't offer us any insight into the nature of language constructs, though.
- pg314 10y agoExactly. To quote Alan Perlis: Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.