An interesting article on text-book vrs real-world programming

31 Dec 2012

...
      Yes.  Give
me control of the machine, of give me DEATH.  Give me the right abstraction or give
me death. :D 
Death to both ouf you!
Give me access to the innards, but let me use high level structures for
stuff that Idon't want to bother with.

"The great thing about C is that it is easy to shove it out of the way
when you need to get lower."

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An interesting article on text-book vrs real-world programming