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>https://iwillneverbehappy.neocities.org/blog23#os I'd be sad to learn that Operating Systems are becoming less and less prominently taught, but I think I understand why it may be happening. Computer programs have been abstracted from individual instructions to assembly language; from assembly language to high-level languages; and from simple high-level languages to relatively abstract ones. Continued below.
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mental-labour
2 years ago
as someone very much interested in learning French primarily for reading I enjoyed this writing of yours
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iwillneverbehappy
2 years ago
Thank you! It was on my mind for years, it is definitely just as interesting to think about language learning as it is to, well, actually learn a language. :p
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Thank you for your post on virtual memory. Though I still don't understand it, I have a better idea of how much I don't know.
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iwillneverbehappy
2 years ago
This is a great start :) As mentioned in the post, even people experienced with systems have trouble with it. And thank you for the comment, I've always loved your website (every once in a while, I go and check your "appreciated" page, it's wonderful)
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You're incredibly cool. I feel honored to be followed by you :)
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You admit, "[t]his may mean nothing in the grand scheme of things." Computer scientists working in Java, Python, or C# hardly need to care what a syscall is. The Tiobe Index confirms these as 3 of the top 5 most popular general-purpose languages, some 27% of the market.
See https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/.
You make a good point about the paradigm shift from assembly languages -> abstracted languages. But it's definitely interesting to see how this shift affects (admittedly specific instances of) CS curricula. Compilers and computer architecture courses seem to have gone down a similar path, so I wonder how the general CS curriculum will look 5, 10 years from now. Anyways, thank you for the thoughtful reply :-)