Very well put. Every good programmer knows the underlying parts of what he is using, and unfortunately the new trend is that programmers don't need to know this

Very well put. Every good programmer knows the underlying parts of what he is using, and unfortunately the new trend is that programmers don't need to know this stuff anymore. It's true that in some cases they don't have to, but they should, and for some reason people get offended when you tell them that...