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Novice or not, the post shouldn't be foreign language to you. I mean, if you just start out it's ok if it is, but eventually you should learn about that stuff.

Now, if you only program with languages like Javascript or Python, then you can maybe ignore it, since those have just one method to do those things.

Otherwise, there's nothing that low level in 80% of the post. It's not like low level intricacies of IEEE floating point, or heavy internal compiler workings. Stuff like static or dynamic dispatch are things that all programmers can benefit of knowing, especially how it's handled in the language that they use.



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