I remember when I was in college. I studied CS. The first thing I learn was how to program in C. In that time, some people thought that I should have learned assembly as well, because that's the closest and most efficient way to talk with the machine. Never learned it, even when I could used it, just wrote a C program and it was translated as a assambly program.

When I enter to my current job, there was this man. It was a wizard in Linux and Unix; he was brillant, but also very stubborn, closed to its...