Somewhat long #Unix #Unix50 toot
The OS I use daily is turning 50, depending on how you define its start. #Unix50
On #Unix's 40th birthday, the IEEE's Spectrum magazine told of its start like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20190228090043/https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0
The 50th anniversary of Unix is particularly reminding me of my age because I was born within days of its manual's first edition: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html
Thankfully, *that* anniversary is still 2 years off. :p
The answer as to "Why would do that to yourself?" is, it was for a class, and programmers of a certain age just assume you know C.
I tried learning Objective-C after doing Swift and a little web dev with languages like JS and Python. I should have introduced myself to C basics first, because all the weird shit Objective-C does makes sense once you know the problems you can run into writing C code.
Imagine trying to work with Objective-C when you don't know what a header file is or why you need one.
That was me trying to translate Objective-C into Swift.
account creation, mad at rich people
i'm required to set up security questions and none of the options is favourite author but they have friggin "what city is your vacation home in" what the hells You Should Not Have Those people in those cities need places to Live and you should be fertilising our Gardens you fucks
also these resources are Supposed to be directed primarily at, y'know, underprivileged folks. so that's a bit sketch
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.