Well I was not trying to blame. And I 100% agree there are loads of good coders of all ages. But knowledge about inner workings helps to understand what is goi

Well I was not trying to blame. And I 100% agree there are loads of good coders of all ages. But knowledge about inner workings helps to understand what is going on and what can be improved. So I don't say you should use a non GC language for example. But knowledge about memory management can help to understand memory leaks.