Programming is a way to make programs

Nothing more.

Satori, if it's even real, is just an affliction that make you unable to care about coding because you've distanced yourself from the real world so much.


Stop making threads about metaphysical nonsense.

EXPERT PROGRAMMERS can use C just fine.  They can understand low-level code.  Being able to write low level code that is controlled by high level programs is the way to REAL ULTIMATE POWER.  Implementation is fucking important.  It's just that development time, flexibility, debugging, reuse, etc are all parts of the implementation process.

Also, SICP is a beginner's book.