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Ken Thompson – Fortran -> B, Dennis Ritchie -> nB (“newB”) -> C, fist 3x attempts implementing UNIX in C failed – on the creation of the C language – computers were ALWAYS ment for gaming – what is Crystal lang? (Filename.cr)

19.11.2022

OF COURSE Dennis Ritchie is the father of C. (An appreciation of the late Dennis Ritchie) (src of the src) Ken Thompson: “was writing FORTRAN in TMG” “when it finally got down to 4k, called it B“ “B and C were […]

Rust vs Go – Open Source is about enabling users – Rust lang will complement C around the GNU Linux Kernel (for better safety) “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to make Open Source more secure

16.05.2022

Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]

Rant: Open Source and the concept of: Release early, release often or publish early & publish often -> continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) -> tight loops ok but still – linking to nirvana without redirection & badly written software that everyone uses – another case of – nothing works “ok” – klarer fall von “nichts funktioniert ok”

03.02.2022

will be redone soon

GNU Linux Debian 10 – gcc – where has the manpage gone? (gcc-doc) – how to create a man page – how to save export manpage to text file

19.12.2021

they have gone missing. but they are available again under Debian 11 https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/gcc-doc hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 apt search gcc-doc Sorting… Done Full Text Search… Done gcc-doc/stable,stable 5:10.1.0-1 amd64 […]

DevC – Linus Torvalds “Nothing better than C”

19.08.2021

what is great about C? the simplicity of the compiler that just run’s anywhere still THE most resource efficient language with C the user does not have to buy a new computer every 3 years, because of updates slowing down […]

computers make mistakes too – Numerical Computation Guide IEEE754 numerical comp guide – floating-point software and hardware SPARC Intel PowerPC

07.01.2021

“floating point arithmetic is considered an esoteric subject by many people” (src: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic – David Goldberg 1991.pdf) some even do “transcendental calculations” (src) make no mistake: computer make mistakes too! not […]

building codelite v12 for-on Debian 9 – and step debug around glibc

25.07.2020

Why this madness? because another machine is running Debian 10 and codelite v12 is it’s default repository. so the idea was: build codelite v12 on Debian 9 and be workspace-compatible well kind of worked. probably wiser, to install Debian 10 […]

GNU Linux (Debian and others) – how to create one’s own private git repository in under 10min (git over ssh)

25.04.2020

git was initially written by Linus Torvalds on the idea: how to create source code management system that does not suck. source code management is very useful when the developer team is x > 1 developer. it allows fast syncing […]

linus torvalds and richard stallman favorite editors ides – uemacs emacs and spacemacs mod to emacs

08.04.2020

UEmacs is the editor/ide that is said to be the work and choice of Linus Torvalds (gnu linux kernel, THANK YOU FOR THE GNU LINUX KERNEL! THANKS!, THANKS MR STALLMAN FOR GCC THANKS! THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED!) UEmacs hostnamectl; # […]

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