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On Feb 8, 1:25=A0pm, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote:
> Except for DK, who granted was actually interviewing people to work
> with such hardware devices, programming doesn't really involve such
> bit twiddling any more. It doesn't even involve being able to design
> data structures much any more either. These days, someone working in
> Java or C++ will just pick an appropriate container class from the
> library and use it, and it will be good enough.

You have a very high-level-platform view of programming.  That is one
large segment of the programming universe, but by no means the only
one.  There are some 10 billion microcontrollers sold each year, and
somebody has to write code at the "bit twiddling" level for each of
them.  And remember that you are posting in an Ada group, a language
which was developed in good measure to do such "bit twiddling".