It started as a game. We were reading about disassembling and competing was fun. Those were the days of +ORC reversing tutorials. I wanted to know how computers

It started as a game. We were reading about disassembling and competing was fun. Those were the days of +ORC reversing tutorials. I wanted to know how computers worked and discovering Linux was the next big step in that direction. Later C,C++, python, objective C..., I think understanding what the computer does with every line gives you an advantage. Some things become obvious to you but not to other programmers without hard assembly experience.