23 Nov
2007
23 Nov
'07
6:45 p.m.
I am wodnering why you assume that computers have to
be approached from
the software side. Perhaps some people prefer to
think in terms of the
gates, and programming is a 'necessary nuisance' to
get the final
hardware to do something (if you doubt such people
exist, well, I can
assure you you're talking to one).
I already knew that. But even you can't get away w/o
some coding now and again. And I think s/w is a bit
more then a "necessary nuisance". W/o it, the hardware
is useless. Now this doesn't mean you personally have
to love it, but you lie at an extreme in terms of
interests. Even those interested in hardware to
whatever degree feel the desire to write some botched
up assembly code. For the average orangutang (like me)
if you want to *get into* a computer, you're going to
learn how to program it, likely at a low level. It's
asking way too much of the vast majority of people to
alter their h/w, or sometimes even fix something
(granted 80% of problems are easy to diagnose. The
other 20% call for the ol' chip swapping methodology
<for a lot of people>,).
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