Interesting article

I just read this article on programming and I thought it would be worth sharing. Since I work with strings a lot most of this wasn't really new to me, but I did find it interesting since at Fox we do use Java as one of our introductory languages (the other being Python.)

It's about the need to understand what goes on at the low level of the machine in order to write good high level software. It uses string processing as an example.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html