A programmer reflects on why marketing C3 as a "C alternative" was misleading. Having experienced rapid development with procedural languages like Turbo Pascal and PHP, they realized OOP's requirement for upfront architecture actually slows development compared to C with modern conveniences like arena allocators and dynamic arrays.
A personal reflection on ten memorable lines of code throughout the author's programming journey, from their first "Hello World" program to creative CSS experiments, highlighting formative moments that shaped their understanding of computing at various levels of abstraction.