Re: Confusing stack effects

Betov wrote:
Herbert Kleebauer <klee@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait news:43F044EA.3997DC56

We don't learn things because we later need them. We learn
so we have the knowledge to select a proper method to solve a problem.

One side effect, that makes me laugh a lot, because it is
nothing but the illustration of what i say every now and
then, can be seen on CLAX, where the number of Assembly
programmers is, so to say, equal to zero, and where close
to 100% of the posts are devoted to Code Level Optimizations
by... C Programmers. This says the whole story of it.

Maybe this people have learned more than one language. And
now they have the knowledge to select the proper language to
solve a problem. On the other side there are people who
think it is enough to know one language and therefore have
to program anything in this language. The sad thing is, that
this people really belief that this language is the proper
tool for anything. It's like a carpenter who has learned to
perfectly use a knife and nothing but a knife. And he can't
even imagine that sometimes a saw is much more useful than a
knife. Just think about it.
.

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