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> If you learned programming in the pre-web era then you weren't able to learn how programs work by studying the shipped artifacts Why not? You can step throug

• mike_hearn 3y ago
  There's a slight difference in abstraction level there. I've done more than my fair share of stepping through assembly in my life and learning things from even minified JS is a lot easier. But I don't think many people learned programming by studying random real-world programs in a disassembler. It was once at least theoretically possible to do that with web programming, albeit not well and not anymore.