This was another good episode, but I always get frustrated with the weird ontology of self-perceived low-level programmers who think the only "real" thing is assembly language as written in the 80s and distainfully dismiss high-level programming concepts as mere "abstractions"https://twitter.com/adamgordonbell/status/1366373423832838149 …
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This is why I use the term "first class" and "second class". The rules of the machine you program on are "first class" - they cannot be broken, and are true by default. Anything you put on top of that is second class - it is only true or valuable if you can demonstrate that.
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This is why we routinely have modern software that is literally thousands of times slower than the underlying machine is capable of. It is simply due to people using extraordinarily expensive combinations of second-class concepts they have not evaluated.
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