> "If you don't know how compilers work, you don't know how computers work." > http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html
> Seems pretty uncontroversial to me. :-) Of course it is, but the question that this gives rise to is "why do you need to know how computers work?" There are loads of things I use every single day that I only have the vaguest idea of how they work (diesel engine, microwave, brain) and that doesn't stop me. And indeed knowing how a diesel engine works would not improve my driving one iota. L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
