Georg Wrede wrote:
- It has to be compiled to genuine executable code. The psychological weight of "knowing" what your code does, as opposed to a diffuse wish "associated with your code to be interpreted, depending on the interpreter at hand [as opposed to actually disassembling the executable and seeing for yourself the actual result!]", simply can't be underestimated. (I've really seen the difference with my students -- and how they've later fared in this arena.)
When I learned programming, I never "got it" until I learned assembler and started comparing the language source code with the assembler emitted by the compiler.
