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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In summary, we are saying programmers should learn how the machine works, and evaluate their higher-level constructs against the resulting machine behavior those constructs produce. Nobody is arguing that everything has to be hand-coded in asm. I certainly don't do that myself :)
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Separately, I also think high-level constructs need to be rigorously analyzed even just as constructs. Many "high-level abstractions" I see advocated actually produce buggier, more voluminous, and less maintainable code. This has nothing to do with the machine, but is also bad.
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