A History of C, UNIX, and Computation (a.k.a "The importance of 1978")

In this lecture we cover how so many trends in computer hardware, operating systems, programming languages, and the overall approach to Computer Science were in flux and vastly influences by the C programming language which was introduced to the world in 1978.
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This is so great and brings back so many good memories to me, when I started as engineer in the 80's. My first contact with SunOS 3.2 on a Sun 3-60 station in 1987, a Motorola 68020 CPU and 16 MByte RAM. The must have books at that time were the animal books from O'Reilly and of course C language from K&C, and a book called UNIX system programming (I think it was from Brian Kernighan either). It was not that easy later to "migrate" to '89 ANSI C, once you were "indoctrinated" during the late seventies, early eighties language reference. This is all history to me. Thank you for all the effort into creating this training - this is a treasure!

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Great storytelling of the history

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When Java came out it claimed to be "write once, run everywhere". I could never understand why you would need JVM to run everywhere instead of just compiling to binaries suitable for each platform. But I knew C wasn't portable, because each platform provided a lot of libraries that had to be included to develop on those platform. And then several years later I found out C was meant to be portable, it baffled me and still does.

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[@ChrisAthanas]

Is this for beginners or experienced developers? This is great for devs that want to go down memory lane but how useful is this for a beginner? Way too much irrelevant details for beginners Great for historians, but all that stuff is implementation details and the insights are more important than the small details

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If a beginning developer wants t become a strong senior developer, they need some foundations of computing. And in the C language the history and story matters. It is not a language to use at all. It is to build deeper understanding.

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You forget what it was like to be a beginner This is mid level dev content

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