Have you ever started to get into the intricacies of bit signs? No? …
… Have you ever started to get into the intricacies of bit signs? No? Well, you should definitely, and to this day it gave me a lasting impression when I started wrapping my head around it, when I was 10 to 11 years old hacking my way into the world of assembler programming on C128. You don't want to take every concept into consideration. You don't want to take interoperability into consideration. All the time! You want to focus on the problem to solve, not the implications of the implementations all the time. I am having such a blast very often using Python since it just works with much cognitive distraction about which language construct to use in order to get the machine doing what you want. It is so capable, enable it, to simply ensure within boundaries that the compiler uses the best decision given the context, which is up to analysis. That's why I stopped using C++ or more precisely stopped any attempts and trying to be smart or fancy. …
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