I'll happily renounce "programmer" in favor of "applied mathematician" or something, whatever it takes to avoid C https://twitter.com/alindeman/status/855557506881396736 …
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Replying to @chris__martin
Seriously, C is a very straightforward and fun language. So close to the metal that it trains useful mental models about machine state.
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Replying to @Plinz @chris__martin
The often totally unrecognizable x86 instructions GCC produces from even simple C code make the "close to the metal" thing seem a bit tired.
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"the metal" is whatever layer of abstraction you choose not to look under
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It's metal all the way down
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From the observer perspective, there is always a lowest causally closed level to be found, and it is always computational.
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