I read comments like this all the time in all sorts of variants (we don't need math, we don't need CS theory, we don't need regexes, we don't need pointers). W

I read comments like this all the time in all sorts of variants (we don't need math, we don't need CS theory, we don't need regexes, we don't need pointers). What do you people even do? Most of my work is with managed languages, but lower level concerns bubble up multiple times per project; you can't write great Python if you can't write decent C.