How appropriately timed for the Assembly demo compo weekend. But I don't think these things are special: what's special is that some people just adapt and immer

How appropriately timed for the Assembly demo compo weekend. But I don't think these things are special: what's special is that some people just adapt and immerse fully into the environment while others try to keep their thinking together and abstract away the machine. We have bit-twiddling hacks because we have machines that do bit-twiddling. If we had had different kind of programming environment, these low-level hackers would've been creating different tricks of trade. Nobody probably ever taught them anywhere formally, except for programmer peers to each other. It's not the low-level stuff per se, it's the people who go for the low level no matter what stuff there is because they have to do it to get the job done.