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Which took better thinking, assembly or Java? We've lost our ability to think well in at least that specific area. Are we worse off, or better?


Java and Assembly are the same in the dimension of cognitive burden. Trying to reason about this fundamentally new thing with analogies like this will not work.


> Java and Assembly are the same in the dimension of cognitive burden.

Yeah... pretty sure you've never programmed in assembly if you think that.




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