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Re: Team 166 Has Open Sourced Its Code

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
[tangential rant]
Compilers, not programmers, should do optimizations.
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I guess this is the old machine logic vs. human logic argument. Why have real programmers when the chem, mech, and civil E's can just put in their logic and the code spits out correctly?

But if programmers don't know how to do it then who will make the new compilers after this generation retires?

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