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Re:Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition by doh on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:18PM (#13708800)
This applies to anything that we as human do, including doctors [0]. Younger doctors that are just out of a residency are more up to date about medical science and have the facts in a fresh memory.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15710959

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Re:Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition by jnbiche on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:17AM (#13714518)
> Younger doctors that are just out of a residency are more up to date about medical science and have the facts in a fresh memory.

Perhaps, but they often have not yet built up the muscle memory needed to manipulate instruments as skillfully as more experienced doctors, nor the knowledge needed to know how to handle unusual situations, both of which are particularly important for surgeons[0,1].

0. http://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/pages/articleviewer....

1. http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/4061...

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Re:Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition by doh on Friday February 24, 2017 @12:34AM (#13721298)
True. You get some, you lose some.
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