The Gumption Blog » c http://www.gumption.com/blog Resisting Gumption Traps Since 1995 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:14:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Climbing The Stack http://www.gumption.com/blog/2008/08/20/climbing-the-stack/ http://www.gumption.com/blog/2008/08/20/climbing-the-stack/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:20:36 +0000 thomas http://www.gumption.com/blog/?p=152 When I was in college, I used to look at the kids who took the compiler theory classes and loved to work in assembler and think to myself, “Thank goodness you like that stuff.  Now I can concentrate on solving real problems with C.”

Now I realize that I’m starting to look at C programmers the same way.  “Thank goodness you like that stuff.  Now I can concentrate on solving real problems with Python.”

I guess I’m just a “top of the stack” kind of guy.  Shoulders of giants and all that.

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