Well, two answers… Ideally, you should know everything, including down to how NAND gates work at the quantum level!
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It is possible to get that complete understanding during an undergraduate EECS degree. Not every working programmer needs that…
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@Meaningness My esthetics are with SICP, but maybe new style is more realistic. The world is a mess, why shouldn't software be as well? -
@Meaningness@vgr Software is attempt to impose logic on disorderly world. Old tools for doing so are inadequate, new ones don't exist yet. - 5 more replies
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@Meaningness@mpweiher also, I keep hearing that it's astonishing that I know how my car works. -
@rbrockerhoff@mpweiher Maybe this is a generational thing? It used to be possible to maintain one’s own car, so understanding it was useful - 4 more replies
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@makehacklearn I think the issue is not Python vs Lisp, though; it’s understanding the machine vs gluing together libraries - 1 more reply
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@Meaningness@venite Also they abandoned Scheme for Python, but Scheme is much more suited to poke around at run time - 3 more replies
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