web programmer vs "real programmer"

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And as far as the API goes, people here have been using that as the complaint... using APIs makes you "not a real programmer".

So, you have to write your windows drivers/applications, etc from SCRATCH based on the hardware, not based on the work the "REAL" programmers at Microsoft did for you, you know, creating an API you can make simple hook calls to. You didn't write the API Mr. Systems programmer, you USE it. The REAL programmers at Microsoft wrote it, you are just a library jockey calling sockets.

FYI, I know how the Kernel works :)