The Trident and The Green Ox

I've been writing code for a few decades now. Started with C. The kind of C where you know roughly what the CPU is doing at any given moment — moving a register, touching a block of memory, shaving off a few microseconds. There's something satisfying about that directness. Assembly-level intuition. It sticks with you. It also makes you a little hostile toward anything that calls itself a "modern language." Not because you can't learn it. Because it doesn't feel right. From C to modern C++ For a