[Info-vax] [OT] Assembly language, was: Re: DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-22 20:07:19 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> I still think they would be better programmers for having that 
> knowledge because it would give them a better understanding of how the 
> hardware they are using actually works.

<https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/blob/master/README.rst>.

But at some level as you drill ever more deeply into the proverbial 
stack of turtles involved with modern computing, you have to trust that 
your usually-somewhat-leaky abstractions are "good enough", and that 
the underpinnings can and do work as intended; that the underpinnings 
(and the hardware and software tools, applicable standards, etc) are 
correct, work as documented, and not otherwise compromised.  Or you can 
complete your goals much, much, much more slowly, if at all.


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