There are plenty of T 1 techs who are as sharp as a sack of wet mice . And your specimen could easily be among their numbers . However , I ' m curious why you think your Tier 1 techs would be on top of their email ? For most , I ' d imagine that horrible hole of secret Santa signups rarely has anything pertinent to their actual day job . A lot of noise , very little signal . <| sep |> yeah and 60 million bots voted for Trump too . Keep putting your head in the sand . <| sep |> I like that article First , a quote from Descartes , then a paragraph with the insinuation that most programmers are somehow afraid of C , likening it to . the Devil , Satan , the trickster Loki . and a computational Lucifer with whom you must make sordid pacts to be productive . While I ' m certain there are many people who are in fact afraid of writing in C , I ' m certain that their apprehension stems from inexperience and a lack of specific domain knowledge rather than emotional fear . Stuff like this really pisses me off . C is not a trickster . It is a language with lots of simple gotchas that can trip you up . There is nothing clever about what it does . Indeed it is the brain dead simplicity of it all that causes problems . Modern technology is much more of a computational Lucifer than C ever was . I can read a C program and know what it does . I ' m not sure you can say that about a great many modern frameworks with magical effort saving behaviour .