Back in the 90's I was working on an operating system kernel that was written in C++. I had read up on the language and had done a lot of compiler work, so I w

Back in the 90's I was working on an operating system kernel that was written in C++. I had read up on the language and had done a lot of compiler work, so I was kind of a local tutor. I'll never forget my boss' reaction when he overheard me tell a coworker "look, if you want to expose your private parts here, you'll need to make a friend."