From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 13:23:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C676D16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at (lilzmailso02.liwest.at [212.33.55.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6597C43D1F for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:23:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm58-27.liwest.at ([212.33.58.27]) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AzMms-0006rV-UL; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:23:19 +0100 From: Daniela To: Johnson David Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:17:56 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200403051855.35905.dgw@liwest.at> <200403051054.33146.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200403051054.33146.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403052217.56455.dgw@liwest.at> cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:23:20 -0000 On Friday 05 March 2004 18:54, Johnson David wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2004 10:55 am, Daniela wrote: > > I have not even written a million code lines yet, as I'm only 16 > > years old and have one and a half year of programming experience. But > > I love that low-level stuff so much that I already think in ASM. > > I did not intend to troll around or start another holy war, I was > > just expressing my opinion. > > Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But one should always let other > people know that it is an opinion, and not state it as a firm > conclusion that will brook no argument. > > In an earlier post you said: "I know what I'm speaking of". Now it turns > out that you are only sixteen, only been programming for one and a half > years, and don't really know what you are speaking of. While a year and > a half of study and practice will give you a lot of programming > knowledge, it only gives you a paltry year and a half of experience. I do have the knowledge of optimization because I jumped right in. I never wrote "hello world" programs or all the other stuff beginning programmers normally write. I know that it makes little sense to optimize parts of a program that are not computationally expensive, and I know that C or other high-level languages *can* incur a lot of overhead. It depends on the program, of course. I know it is true that, while I may have a great knowledge, I simply lack the experience in some areas.