high vs low level programming

[Deepak Saxena]

I decided to look through the archives for this list and seems
that discussion is sporadic.  So I'll kick up a topic of discussion
that's not directly Linux related, but has much to do with
SW development.  How many people here are low level hackers
(c, asm, bit fiddling in hardware, etc) and how many are more
into high level (C++, perl, DB, xml, SOAP, etc)?  I'm mainly
a low level hacker who can write perl and php scripts to 
put up little web sites but a lot of high level concepts such
as design patterns, complex OO, things .net, CORBA, etc really
confuse the hell out of me at times.  What's other people experiences
with different levels of software development? What about those that
have started with one and gone the other way? I believe and have
seen first hand that it's a lot easier to go from  being a low
lever coder to a high level one than vice versa.  What I've noted
is that a lot of high level programmers haven't had the exposure
to hardware concepts and that makes it really hard to grasp 
how the code actually maps to hardware bits. 

Comments, flames?

g'night,
~Deepak

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