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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
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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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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...