On 29/10/2012 20:00, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:05:33PM +0100, Faux Amis wrote:
On 29/10/2012 18:38, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/29/2012 2:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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I agree with you, but again, that's not the world we live in. On
the other hand, why does, say, an PHP (insert your favorite
dynamic programming language that doesn't use a linker) programmer
need to know what a linker is?
Because it's a fundamental tool for programmers, despite PHP not
using it. It's like knowing what a CPU register is.
Haha, I know a lot of professional programmers who do not know the
difference between the stack and the heap but still are able to write
useful code.
The kind of code the average "professional" programmer produces is ...
shall I say, underwhelming? It's the kind of thing that makes me
consider career switches. Raising the bar for programmer qualification
will do the world a lot of good.
T
I am not sure that less programmers would be a good thing for the world.
But, I have seen people who know all the ins and outs of their machine
create horrible code which I will never allow to merge and people who
barely know what a pointer is generate very clean, readable and usable
code.
