In retrospect I don't think I learned much of value by banging my head against the wall trying to work around defects in the shitty Sequent Dynix Pascal compiler used in my CS1 course. I wonder how many students get so frustrated dealing with pointless platform and environmental obstacles that they can't learn the core material effectively?
> I wonder how many students get so frustrated dealing with pointless platform and environmental obstacles that they can't learn the core material effectively?
I'm gonna be honest here, if we're talking about the tech industry, learning to deal with "pointless platform and environmental obstacles" without getting so frustrated you quit is probably the chief skill.
I know a lot of devs that don't have any idea what the stack or the heap are or why they're important. But being able to track down that one of your dependencies is listening to a magical environment variable that you stepped on and that's why everything is wonkey is an important skill that you have to have.
