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• Real computer scientists don't write code. They occasionally tinker with `programming systems', but those are so high level that they hardly count (and rarely count accurately
  precision is for applications.)...
• Real programmers don't write applications programs, they program right down to the BARE METAL.
  Applications programming is for feebs who can't do systems programming....
• Real computer scientists don't comment their code. The identifiers are so long they can't afford the disk space.
• An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools.
  Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use....
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....