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By Understanding A Machine-oriented Language, The Programmer Will Tend To Use A Much More Efficient Method; It Is Much Closer To Reality.

We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil.

Trees Sprout Up Just About Everywhere In Computer Science.

Programmers Waste Enormous Amounts Of Time Thinking About, Or Worrying About, The Speed Of Noncritical Parts Of Their Programs, And These Attempts At Efficiency Actually Have A Strong Negative Impact When Debugging And Maintenance Are Considered. We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%.

People Who Are More Than Casually Interested In Computers Should Have At Least Some Idea Of What The Underlying Hardware Is Like. Otherwise The Programs They Write Will Be Pretty Weird.