See what Guranoz has to say to that in "Modern calculus": "There are mystical programmer's sects, which practice initiation rites (though they call it initialization), what means introduction into the ranks of Real Programmers; the key point is a feat of producing a master's piece. As a rule, it's some hard and tricky thing to do (a translator capable of knowing the slang and double senses, or a generator of multilingual crosswords), which traditionally must be written in MAK or some other low language.