[jheriko]

of course, if you program for anything like you do for "real man hardware" - by which i mean targetting hardware and not a software platform e.g. a games console or a proper native app, part of the 'web stack' etc.... you never have a problem like this. :P

eventually you realise that C isn't fast enough and you can make it faster, but nobody else cares because they spunk clock cycles and bytes everywhere like they have billions of them (which of course they do... :D)

...and suddenly every language and platform is solving problems you never had because you just weren't a bad programmer to start with, and instead of solving your problems they are just tying your hands to prevent other people from shooting themselves in the feet.