For me, one of the biggest problems with computers and software development is that it is so easy for something and somebody else to make your own life into a living heck. If you count all the times we have to try to work around something else, it boggles my mind. I can really appreciate where Arthur Whitney, or Niklaus Wirth, is coming from when they want to do the whole effin' stack. (Even if I do not have 1/100th their acumen or raw talent or weird alternate business reality, so I probably can't really take the same approach.) I shoulda been a farmer. :-)