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From: scott@softbase.com
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/01/30
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coryb@magmacom.com wrote:

> I don't expect programmers to learn engineering anytime soon, but there
> is one big problem I do have with most programmers -- they are ignorant of
> assembly code and the internals of generated code, runtime systems,
> operating systems, etc.  

How does it cause problems?

Over the past 10 years, programming as an activity has
pulled itself up by its bootstraps and has created layers
to manage complexity. One person can't know it *all* anymore,
because there's too much to know. You could write COM objects
in ASM, but it would be ridicuously complex.

As a result, it's stratified. People who know asm and stuff are
writing OSes, components, and stuff. People use these 
parts to assemble working systems at a high level.

Scott
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