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There is this strange notion in the industry that, the closer you are to shifting and flipping bits directly, the farther you are from the end-user and the clos
by rubinelli 17y ago
There is this strange notion in the industry that, the closer you are to shifting and flipping bits directly, the farther you are from the end-user and the closer you are to the machine, the higher you are in the programmer pecking order. I wrote enough C and Assembly to know it's hard, but in my experience being a "web guy" is just as hard. In fact, it's a harder kind of hard for us introverted folks, because it involves understanding why people interact with your CRUD app the way they do. You can't just poke them with you oscilloscope probes and expect to get meaningful answers.
- jrockway 17y agoManaging your own memory is much harder to get right than letting the compiler do it for you, so therefore you must be better if you do it. Your programs have more bugs and run slower... but... it's hard... so it must be better. Fortunately, eventually all the people that grew up on C will die. Then the field can perhaps move on.
- nopassrecover 17y agoAh damn I misread your comment (missed the sarcasm) and accidentally voted down. Would appreciate if someone felt like upvoting his comment to counter me :-)