1. Every generation of programmers typically only has a certain window of knowledge, and everything before their time is simply foreign to them. Most developers aren't programming history buffs, they don't read books from the past to learn about technologies or how they work, how we got to now, etc.
2. When you're starting off on your journey as a programmer you're using a lot of things without understanding their implementation, and that understanding for most individuals whom I've worked with comes from having to debug issues.
1. Every generation of programmers typically only has a certain window of knowledge, and everything before their time is simply foreign to them. Most developers aren't programming history buffs, they don't read books from the past to learn about technologies or how they work, how we got to now, etc.
2. When you're starting off on your journey as a programmer you're using a lot of things without understanding their implementation, and that understanding for most individuals whom I've worked with comes from having to debug issues.