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He is commiting basic fallacy which is when you discovered some benefit of learning something related to X, you want to tell everybody to learn it before they s
by paulriddle 8y ago
He is commiting basic fallacy which is when you discovered some benefit of learning something related to X, you want to tell everybody to learn it before they start learning X. It so common in programming discussions. It is a fallacy because oftentimes you can't appreciate something until you have a need for that or geniune curiosity.
- enriquto 8y agoI actually learnt assembler after a being able to code in a few high-level languages. Assembler was a sort of "liberation", an exhilarating feeling of understanding "so, that's it!". Even if you do not spend much time in assembler, being able to write a hello world and a program that prints prime numbers (or some graphical demo) is a valuable knowledge in computing. Programming without knowing anything about assembler is like driving without having ever opened the hood of your car and changed some oil. Of course, if you are a professional driver you will have specialist mechanicians that take care of all of it, but still it would be ridiculous if you could not do a few simple things.
- paulriddle 8y ago> being able to write a hello world and a program that prints prime numbers (or some graphical demo) is a valuable knowledge in computing. You are so wrong. It is not valueable at all. If you are able to do this, then you're just capable of signaling that you have been exposed to assembly and familiar with the very basics of it. But how is it any useful? If you could find some intricate bug, or optimize a program in a considerable way based on insight you gained from reading it's assembly code that would have been very valueable indeed.
- enriquto 8y agoYou know, serious biologists must know some basic chemistry, and serious chemists must know some basic physics.