Re:Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++
by Kwpolska on Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:08PM
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Writing a linked list is a novice exercise in most programming languages. It’s also a novice exercise given in first year of CS at universities. It might not be the most efficient data structure, but it’s a really trivial one.
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Re:Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++
by pavlov on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:04PM
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In assembly it’s really easy to write self-modifying code. It used to be the norm in fact. But today’s high-level programming languages generally make it impossible, and most operating systems also prevent mutating code in memory (no-execute page protection, etc.) Yet there are still use cases like JIT compilers.
The linked list is the data structure equivalent of self-modifying code. It’s easy for a novice to understand, but there’s no great reason for anyone to actually do it today outside of a specialized library.