Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On 6/4/2024 2:17 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> writes:

On 6/4/2024 12:17 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

On 2024-06-03, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

At the time, in the OS research community, Chorus was, indeed well-known.

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If Chorus at least doesn't vaguely ring a bell, you must have your head
up your ass as even a bachelor-level computer scientist.
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FWIW: When I was going to college for a CS major, the emphasis was
mostly on Microsoft technologies, and a lot of the classes were taught
in C#. I mostly stuck with C for my own uses though (and IIRC did write
one class project in C++/CLI).

 A CS major should concentrate on the theory (operating system principles,
compiler principles, data structures, algorithmic complexity,
security, fundamentals of programming independent upon language,
and a survey of useful programming languages), and perhaps a look at the
history of computing.
 It sounds like your CS department let you down.
 

Pretty much no theory or history.
Whole lot of emphasis on Microsoft products though, and very little else. As noted, most classes were in C#. There was a data structures class, but was in C#, which sorta diminishes it to some extent as the general idea was that people would just use the container classes anyways (rather than write a linked list or binary tree themselves).
Linux was talked about to some extent in one of the classes (but, more in a high-level introductory sense). I don't remember which distro it was, but IIRC was being run in VMware.
But, at the time, the then new OS was Windows Vista (but, I was odd, running XP X64 instead; but was also odd in middle and high school for running NT4 and 2K rather than Win9X).
Not too much different than Cygwin, or WSL (where, WSL gives a better experience in at least as far as WSL still actually works, and is not such a pain as trying to use QEMU which along with DOSBox are seemingly the only other VMs that will still run on a PC with non-functioning hardware virtualization, *1).
*1: Should work on my CPU, and enabled in the BIOS, but doesn't work for some reason as far as any of the VMs are concerned (seemingly it may be a limitation somehow caused by a limitation in the MOBO chipset or something; along with the inability to stick a full 128GB of RAM in the thing, but is OK with 112GB).
But, yeah, I have done far more CS stuff in my hobby projects than I had taken in classes.
Compiler stuff or OS stuff:
Nope (as far as classes go), this was all hobby projects for me.
I wrote my own compiler because I found it interesting, at the time, most people (including the teachers) would have thought of this sort of thing as absurd...