"While CS undergrads are still required to take classes on assembly, most productive SWEs never interact with assembly. Moving up the ladder of abstraction has consistently been good."
Gotta disagree. Adding abstraction has yielded benefits but it certainly hasn't been consistently good. For example, see the modern web.
Gotta disagree. Adding abstraction has yielded benefits but it certainly hasn't been consistently good. For example, see the modern web.