So many of the reviews I've seen of the Vision Pro talk about it being the best TV screen you'll ever see. That's great, but what's wrong with building the best TV screen everyone can enjoy, or going to the movies and seeing something with friends on that big screen? In a service based economy and society, isolating everyone with VR headsets seems a questionable approach.
Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."
So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).
I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?
C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.
@santiago I do find booking such things stressful though, so even if it took a while and displayed all the options in a thoughtful way, I would definitely love it.
I believe the choice of ø and 0 here is a grave error and makes the text super annoying to read. I bet that in the 44 years since this book was published the author has come to regret that decision.
Today FORTH may seem like an obscure programming language, but almost every computer magazine I have from 1983/5 has articles and adverts for #FORTH products. So I would class it the most mainstream niche language.