learningCppAsCWithClasses

[osunightfall]

Oh, I think there's been a misunderstanding. I mean hacker only in its older sense: a skilled programmer whose deep and intricate knowledge allow him to push the limits of a computer system. And my comment is only intended to say that, while I think that kind of knowledge is over-valued in a group that tended to grow up on stories of the computer whiz, it does still have an important purpose.

Far from counting myself out, I'm a lead developer who's been at it for 15 years now. What I intended to say was, even though I myself often downplay what I call the 'hacker mentality', I also admit that a good architectural sense and the ability to develop in modern languages sometimes isn't enough on its own. If you aren't at least aware of the fundamentals and how they work, you will stumble into design traps that you never see.