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The best programmers I know are able to see through the abstraction and are comfortable getting into the lowest-level details. They have those skills because t
by couchand 5y ago
The best programmers I know are able to see through the abstraction and are comfortable getting into the lowest-level details. They have those skills because they've actually used them.
I'm not saying we'd be better off without optimizing compliers, but I do think every programmer should have practical experience taking the lid off and poking around inside.
- simiones 5y agoThere is a major difference between being able to poke into low-level details and being able to program at full efficiency in Microsoft Notepad or ed (which is what the OP seems to be advocating for). One is a rare and occasionally extremely useful skill, the other is basically a party trick, like being able to recite the Illiad from memory.