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t-3last Wednesday at 2:53 PM1 replyview on HN

They will be disabused of any of those notions simply by reading the relevant portions of the architecture handbook. In a pedagogical environment that's very simple to arrange.


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tsimionesculast Thursday at 9:40 AM

Someone who is just learning to program will not be well served by reading a modern CPU architecture handbook. It is far too complex for someone who doesn't even know yet what a graph is, for example.