I started coding in the UK in assembler on tiny 64k machines and cavalier heroic coding to save space and cycles was the norm. I moved to the US coding in C and

I started coding in the UK in assembler on tiny 64k machines and cavalier heroic coding to save space and cycles was the norm. I moved to the US coding in C and while there was no shortage of clever heroic coding, simple brute force approaches were usually tried first. Nowadays, most of the heroism is bundled in the toolset.