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Reminds me of Rob Pike's wonderful talk "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant", especially of this bit: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf …pic.twitter.com/ED1ygY2Imf
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I really like this suggestion. CS students are routinely asked to write compilers. Why not make designing their own text editor part of the curriculum? Or CAD program? Or [etc]https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1035951868504141826 …
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It's easy to see designs as inevitable. But Larry Tesler - one of the originators of word processing - actually brought about a change in _when_ we specify commands. Should actions precede objects, or vice versa? Tesler flipped this, after much thought! https://github.com/devinmcgloin/theory/blob/master/worrydream/Tesler%20-%20A%20Personal%20History%20of%20Modeless%20Text%20Editing%20and%20Cut-Copy-Paste.pdf …pic.twitter.com/XUACgXZTq7
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"Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination."
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The confidence of knowing how the technology you use works -- knowing that you can at least build a prototype of everything you see (and maybe do some things differently…)
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Thinking of it also from the point of view of asking them to do the design - to be aware of all the choices they make, and to perhaps deliberately violate some conventional, basic choices (as Tesler did).
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I think implementing a simple web browser would be cool since most people are doing web development these days.
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Build Your Own Text Editor (in C) https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
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When I took the data structures class at Berkeley, we actually had to implement our own text editor - http://datastructur.es/sp16/materials/proj/proj2/proj2.html …
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And good compiler writers are still scarce :)
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Even scarcer are folks who can optimize machine code for custom computational architectures.
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