Chambers wrote:
> but because knowing how computers 
> *really* work will help them write better programs in the long run.

I taught my boss how semiconductors work last week. Why blue LEDs aren't 
just "red LEDs with a different color". And why TTL takes more current 
than CMOS. :-)  If you don't know why computers work in binary, and you 
can't prove that 2's compliment math works, you still haven't gotten all 
the way to the bottom. :-)

What's all this "assembly language" high-level stuff?  ;-)

I remember coming into the lab at Bellcore, seeing one of the guys 
writing some C code, saying "Oh, getting down to some low-level stuff, 
eh?"  He said "I'm writing a device driver for this joystick I just 
built."  I said "Oh, getting down to some high-level stuff, eh?"

But yah, that's why I thought the article was interesting. It had a 
combination of opinions that wasn't black-and-white.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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