Re:Rob Pike interview
by mav3rick on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:31PM
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If you didn't know you should have clarified before making such sweeping statements. Who knew writing an OS would count as systems programming experience.
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"writing an OS" is a sweeping, unsupported and inaccurate statement. You can be involved in Linux and, say, write the ext4 filesystem or Wifi drivers. Those are pretty low-level. You could also write shell utilities like ls in probably anything where you're just using OS APIs. Is that low-level? I would say not.
My friend, my comrade in arms, I have a link[1] for you. If you read only one of these papers, then please just read the first one, but please note the author credits on almost all of them.
[1] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/
EDIT: In the past half hour, the original website went down, I don't think it is related to my link. Here is a different link with the same contents:
The C, Unix and AWK creators know nothing on low-level stuff.
Please, kid.