nwhm

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   by nwhm 8y ago

   I highly recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective for learning C. In particular chapter 3 of that book is what made it all click for me. Understanding how C is translated down into assembly is incredibly useful for unders
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   by nwhm 8y ago

   Unicode isn't an encoding, but most terminals use UTF-8 (check your LANG environment variable), of which ascii is a subset
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   by nwhm 8y ago

   Well he mentioned LISP and if we include all of it's innovation then garbage-collection, homoiconicity, tail calls, and REPLs are covered.