[wokkel]

But it does. The same holds for Google and stackoverflow: the majority of developers have trouble with sql.since the introduction of or mappers and plenty of other examples. Ask a junior dev about the difference between a stack allocated and a heap allocated object and be amazed.

[hinkley]

I haven't been able to read any brand of assembly since about 2010, and that was JVM not Intel.

I still retained the 10000 foot view, and that mechanical sympathy has definitely helped me with fixing supposedly intractable performance issues with some regularity.

Like a lot of things in education, there's an important distinction between learning something to use it, and learning it to appreciate or inform what you do with what we have now.

Similarly there are processes we try to deploy 24/7 at work that I think would be better off being done for four weeks twice a year just to knock the cobwebs off of how we perform the job the rest of the year.