> Why do professional programmers write code like this? Because we 1) for some reason or another we _must_ use C or C++, 2) we're coding for a single CPU platf

> Why do professional programmers write code like this? Because we 1) for some reason or another we _must_ use C or C++, 2) we're coding for a single CPU platform, and 3) we need to get the friggin' job done in this century.