The guys that toggled the machine code in the console, or soldered commands into the boards sneered at the assembler programmers. The assembler folks once snee

The guys that toggled the machine code in the console, or soldered commands into the boards sneered at the assembler programmers. The assembler folks once sneered at those using higher-level languages. The higher-level language folks sneered at the 3GLs and the interpreted language folks. The HTML folks sneered at the folks using Dreamweaver. The folks using editors sneered at the folks using IDEs. Understanding the stack is good. But assuming folks should re-live the foibles of the whole stack, and particularly the painful parts of the stack? Not so much.