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Do you want to learn it because it looks interesting, or because you think it's important for a Real Programmer to know?

If it's the former, go for it.

If it's the latter, don't worry about it. I have a CS degree, did 6 years on a team writing C++ at Microsoft, and only briefly flirted with understanding this stuff. A couple of the wizard devs on the (very large) team could do it, but they also knew that code needed to be simple above all else, so it was effectively banned in our code base.