To avoid some linking errors

[Faux Amis]

On 29/10/2012 20:00, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:05:33PM +0100, Faux Amis wrote:
>> On 29/10/2012 18:38, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 10/29/2012 2:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> [...]
>>>> I agree with you, but again, that's not the world we live in. On
>>>> the other hand, why does, say, an PHP (insert your favorite
>>>> dynamic programming language that doesn't use a linker) programmer
>>>> need to know what a linker is?
>>>
>>> Because it's a fundamental tool for programmers, despite PHP not
>>> using it. It's like knowing what a CPU register is.
>> Haha, I know a lot of professional programmers who do not know the
>> difference between the stack and the heap but still are able to write
>> useful code.
>
> The kind of code the average "professional" programmer produces is ...
> shall I say, underwhelming? It's the kind of thing that makes me
> consider career switches. Raising the bar for programmer qualification
> will do the world a lot of good.
>
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I am not sure that less programmers would be a good thing for the world.

But, I have seen people who know all the ins and outs of their machine 
create horrible code which I will never allow to merge and people who 
barely know what a pointer is generate very clean, readable and usable 
code.