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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 18:33:21 JST nixCraft 🐧

   We all stand on the shoulders of giants. The legacy of Dennis Ritchie continues, and you can see it everywhere in modern computing. C and #Unix set the rock-solid foundation for today's most famous technologies, such as #Linux, #BSD, #macOS, iOS, Android, etc. Thank you, dmr!

   • MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 19:08:30 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @nixCraft
     Everything is written in C, including C++ and Rust.
     Not everyone realises the revolution K&R caused.

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 19:23:05 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft "You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
     I know with what he meant (in both quotes), but it's still a nice joke material.

   • Simon Lucy (simon_lucy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 00:52:00 JST Simon Lucy

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     @nixCraft

     Oh for complete books on a language in ~200 pages (Ed 1).

   • Aiono (aiono@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 02:25:18 JST Aiono

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     @nixCraft
     Unix was a good improvement but it's not perfect. There are many historical defects and we can't get some nice things because of all the backwards compatibility requirements. We should stop believing that it's perfection.