Sure, ml is silly, until your wife asks you how many teaspoons in a quarter cup (as she's trying to upsize a recipe). Then ml are wonderful, and I thank god the measuring devices are marked in ml too. (teaspoon = 5ml, quarter cup = 60 ml).

If you were writing a compiler for a machine with less than 64K of memory, you'd be happy with a spiffy macro assembler!

var++ is more efficient on the PDP-11 than ++var.

I was thinking the same thing. It's similar to how people who program for a living tend to have nicer computers at home too...

Since they are going to spend most of their life justifying their budgets with PowerPoint, might as well get them used to windows ;-)