Mike_12345

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by Mike_12345 4y ago
But does it really force you to learn more about the hardware versus other languages? I am challenging that assumption or belief. C has memory pointers, but those are pointers in a flat memory space abstracted over the physical memory hiera
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
But it's not. It has become a high level language. The idea that C is still a low level language is no longer true. It is highly abstracted from modern hardware. Edit: I just saw your edited comment. Yeah the point is you really don&#x
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
That was true in the 70's but C doesn't require that you understand much about modern hardware. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
> None of these assertions is correct. You should fix the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython "CPython can be defined as both an interpreter and a compiler as it compiles Python code into b
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
That is definitely a compiler and anyone with a CS degree would call it that if they were discussing its functionality, because that's technically what it is. (Referring specifically to the part which compiles Python to bytecode) Your
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
What they don't understand is that it's technically not an autocomplete. It is a hierarchical model of concepts within a 96 layer neural network.
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
GNU / Linux and BSD would never have started with that attitude. Most hardware was proprietary back in the day, and still is proprietary today. Even Thinkpads (a favourite among BSD devs) have proprietary subsystems that are reverse en
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
Vast majority of hardware used by the open source community is proprietary and undocumented, and always has been. They embrace the challenge of reverse-engineering.
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by Mike_12345 4y ago
That's typically been the case since Linux started in 1991. Reverse-engineering undocumented proprietary hardware has been the norm.