Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).