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Best way to learn programming:

1) Learn logic
2) Learn assembly
3) Learn C

At this point, two choices: stick with C or learn whatever high-level languages/paradigms suit what you want to do.

Almost everyone does the exact reverse.  First learn BASIC or Java, then attempt to understand what's going on underneath (and probably never get around to it).

If you go from the bottom up, each step gets easier and there's no mystery hiding what's going on under the hood.

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competent programmers can always do better than the built-in mechanisms in a high-level language.
This is what Ctards actually believe.

So your version of a + b  is probably, realistically, about five function calls and maybe 50 to 100 lines of code, where it would be a single instruction for anyone who knows what they're doing.
Apparently because they don't have the faintest idea how much work goes into implementing a standard library. Hint: language implementors don't half-ass it like you would, because they actually understand the problem at hand.

probably interpreted code, at that
Yes, most fundamental language features are written in interpreted code.

I'm not saying that programmers in high-level languages shouldn't know what's happening at a low level (or that they don't). But it's abundantly apparent that low-level programmers have even more studying to do if they're ever going to move beyond Greenspinning terrible solutions to every problem they encounter.