The Young Programmer: Arrogance and Abstraction

An article against ego that tries to encourage perspective, written by an author with such a big ego and lack of perspective he writes things like:

"Maybe, you think that because you avoid all the abstractions of higher level languages, you are somehow better and “purer.” Because you do pointer arithmetic and bit shifting, you really understand what is going on in a computer. No, you don’t. You understand C programming"

I'm sure somewhere in there is a heart-felt message though ... somewhere. I think he needs to meet more programmers.

Wow buddy, a lot more experience will help you calm down.

"Maybe C is the best language for the software you are writing, or maybe exclusively programming in C is another manifestation of your out-of-control ego. First of all, what happened to using the best tool for the job."

You manage to argue with yourself in consecutive sentences.

If you met someone who crapped on your skills because they write code in C and you work in higher level languages, they're assholes, not "programmers". Assholes exist in every industry.

99% of the programmers I know are awesome; I was just wrote too aggressively to make a point. I'm sorry if I sounded arrogant -- that was not at all my intention.

I'm going to write up another version of this with a simpler message -- be grateful. I promise I'll chill out :)

Thanks for the comments!