Re:Should programmers learn machine code?
by coryrc on Saturday September 05, 2009 @08:11PM
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I believe you got the wrong conclusion from your story. They don't need to know low-level details because you do. Must they also understand payroll, marketing, sales, and floor-mopping just to work as a php programmer?
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Re:Should programmers learn machine code?
by jacquesm on Saturday September 05, 2009 @08:39PM
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No, because payroll, marketing, sales and floor-mopping do not help you to become a better programmer in PHP. But knowing some assembly definitely will. Especially if you go so far as to have a look at the paging mechanism and cache structure of the cpus that you are using.