none of my statements goes against learning history.
I probably don't do as much as I could/should... but I am a successful programmer who has never needed "history" to understand basic programming principles.
I seem to consider history and good engineering to be different topics while everyone else seems to think you can't understand Big O, YAGNI, SOLID, the difference between Functional Programming and Procedural programing, etc, etc, etc without understanding the history of how assembly turned into c...
Because History is interesting... but not needed to be a good engineer and a good programmer.
I probably don't do as much as I could/should... but I am a successful programmer who has never needed "history" to understand basic programming principles.
I seem to consider history and good engineering to be different topics while everyone else seems to think you can't understand Big O, YAGNI, SOLID, the difference between Functional Programming and Procedural programing, etc, etc, etc without understanding the history of how assembly turned into c...
Because History is interesting... but not needed to be a good engineer and a good programmer.