One of my earliest programming languages was C++, which for all its warts, was a giant leap from my first language, BASIC. I especially enjoyed understanding precisely what's happening at the CPU and memory level1 to my program when it runs. Once I got a Real Job, I moved on to higher level languages and spent the last decade mostly writing JavaScript and Python. These are both exceedingly powerful languages that have been a joy to build stuff with, but they do sometimes make you miss the low le...