D in the ix magazine about "programming today"

[Walter Bright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
>  - It has to be compiled to genuine executable code. The psychological 
> weight of "knowing" what your code does, as opposed to a diffuse wish 
> "associated with your code to be interpreted, depending on the 
> interpreter at hand [as opposed to actually disassembling the executable 
> and seeing for yourself the actual result!]", simply can't be 
> underestimated. (I've really seen the difference with my students -- and 
> how they've later fared in this arena.)

When I learned programming, I never "got it" until I learned assembler 
and started comparing the language source code with the assembler 
emitted by the compiler.