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You do not have to know how it works underneath, but depth is where invention comes from — nobody who only knows the surface invents a programming language.

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  1. Kelsey Hightower

    Self-taught software engineer

    But if you ever want to get better at anything, and sometimes that depth, that nuance is the thing that leads to an invention, right? If you know how a compiler works, if you know how memory management works, that might give you enough information to say, "Oh, I can make a new programming language."

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