Base Two Blues

I sit here cursing at Herman Hollerith, and his foolish punch card machine, trying to make base-2 make sense in a base-10 world. Now I can add and subtract as well as any man, But peeking where I poked is really a hard call, much harder than it looks! Though I've received compliments for my two's-complement notation. Some people even flipped their bits! I have fond memories of bytes that flowed, making words into meaningful structure, Though I must confess, that iterable data structures often leave me irritable. Like objects of my memory, now dereferenced, though fail when strict'd I also learned a few good pointers, which makes it easier I find, if you want your look up tables to behave. But I've also found that, it's pointless pointing pointers where you have no address saved. I never optimize what I have written clearly, But I shudder when coded memory has leaked! Oh no, t'was caught too late, it's crashed again.