At the uni in Oslo (Norway) there are plenty of low level programming courses. I've taken a few C (no plus plus) course with plenty of bit shifting. There is a

At the uni in Oslo (Norway) there are plenty of low level programming courses. I've taken a few C (no plus plus) course with plenty of bit shifting. There is a course with a lot of assembly, you get to write a converter for UTF8 in assembly working with a lot of shifting on the registers. Then there is a course where you develop an OS and one where you work with multi-core architectures. And I also feel that that guy in the article should have grey hair. It would give more weight to his argument.