I like this text a lot. There is this serene peace you get when you know your code works no matter what. The first thing that came to mind after reading the te

I like this text a lot. There is this serene peace you get when you know your code works no matter what. The first thing that came to mind after reading the text was Joel's article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm... quote: "Today, to work on CityDesk, I need to know Visual Basic, COM, ATL, C++, InnoSetup, Internet Explorer internals, regular expressions, DOM, HTML, CSS, and XML. All high level tools compared to the old K&R stuff, but I still have to know the K&R stuff or I'm toast."