In <20090624052259.ga4...@galactic.demon.co.uk>, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>Russell Coker on Planet.debian had a post yesterday or so where he pointed
>to the very wise advice he'd been given, essentially "the people who write
>compilers and toolchains are smarter/better programmers
>than you are: if you think you've found a bug in their compiler, its
>almost always in your code".

There will be a point in your development of programming skills where this 
is no longer true.  (Mostly, because you won't blame the compiler/toolchain 
except in the rarest of circumstances, after triple-checking yourself and 
having *at least* one other programmer you trust look at it.)

You can be just as smart/good as them without having to write compilers and 
toolchains.  Not all are called to such black arts.
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