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Old 09-01-2007, 02:39 PM  
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Originally Posted by WarChild View Post
The thing about the formal education is that it teaches you how to program as opposed to a specific language. A good programmer can pick up any language no problem because they already know how to "speak".
For higher level languages, yes.

However,

Code:
XOR %reg, %reg
vs
MOV.B 0x00, %reg
to save a byte or a cycle doesn't do much these days.
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