| | I've been thinking - a lot - lately about how few programmers actually take the time to learn how their language of choice works. I mean, it's understandable for those using languages (*cough* Visual Basic *cough*) that don't have their own source code available.
But really, those are rare. C? Crap, there are a billion implementations available, for free. Easily downloaded and perused. Same with C++. Python, Perl, PHP, Java, or Ruby? They're open source, too.
This probably makes me sound like an elitist bastard. That's ok - I am one. But I honestly wonder how someone can claim, "Hey, I know how to code in *blah*" without having actually read the source of it, to see how and what's happening.
Documentation is great. It's grand. But it's often only telling half of the story, if that much.
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| | Posted 9/2/2009 10:19 PM - 4 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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