Should Programmers Learn Machine Code?
Monday, 07 September 2009 10:05 Hrs
❝ Poor choice of phrase: Latin, the language is a prereq for Natural Scientists describing phylum.
"... Knowing machine code isn't an academic endeavor for many programmers, much like knowing Latin isn't an academic endeavor for doctors FTFY..."
Poor choice of phrase: Latin, the language is a prereq for Natural Scientists describing phylum. For Doctors Latin is used every day because the physical structure of humans is described in and derived from Latin. This isn't an just an "academic" pursuit.
I understand what you're getting at btw. But programmers who don't understand MIX probably don't know about Knuth. When I'm writing to HN and use the phrase "programmers" and "writers" I'm neither referring to "Accountants programming Excel" nor "Shakespeare as translated by Lolcats".
