On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 14:58:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like.
        Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
        -- D. Knuth

Well, while I do agree in general, there is a huge difference between understanding how h/w executes machine code and casually reading assembly listings ;)

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