[wellylug]The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

[Andrej]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 19:12, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > If you don't know how to program in assembly
> > language then you don't know how to program.
> That's a bit extreme, Bruce. Many programmers have never had
> to descend to that level during their programming careers.
Let's mellow it down to "If you don't know what your machine
does with high-level programming on a low level you're more
likely to produce inefficient code" .... and as always: like
with Java and other hyped stuff: why bother if you can 
just throw more hardware at it ;} ... hardware is cheaper
than programming time.


> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
Cheers,
Andrej


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