MIT no longer teaches anyone to understand programming because software no longer makes any sense. http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206
Other answer is that (imo) every working programmer *should* know how to write complex systems from scratch in a high-level lang.
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Even if you never actually do that, you can’t understand the complex libraries you use without the ability.
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On the other hand, it’s not really practical to understand the complex libraries we use nowadays, because they are too big,
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