Start on the metal, then work up through the abstraction stack. Machine code is all the damn boxen do anyway, and it teaches hard discipline and later appreciation for higher-order language features.
If x86 is too ugly, start with a cleanly designed emulator like MIX (er, MMIX).
The IBM terminal keyboards and displays had a limited character set in addition to emitting characters in EBCDIC: http://www.globalmt.com/html-manuals/admin/admin00 000006.gif. More, many of the characters were filtered or interpreted by the telecommunications systems (VTAM) or by the editor / monitor. Cowlishaw chose a representation that worked under these restrictions.
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'Muhammed' is the new 'Voldemort'.
In a 140-byte world, who has time to read, much less reflect and speculate?
Start on the metal, then work up through the abstraction stack. Machine code is all the damn boxen do anyway, and it teaches hard discipline and later appreciation for higher-order language features.
If x86 is too ugly, start with a cleanly designed emulator like MIX (er, MMIX).
Happy DEC-10 day.
It did. Two of my local subfolders vanished.
OneCare was removed shortly thereafter.
The IBM terminal keyboards and displays had a limited character set in addition to emitting characters in EBCDIC: http://www.globalmt.com/html-manuals/admin/admin00 000006.gif. More, many of the characters were filtered or interpreted by the telecommunications systems (VTAM) or by the editor / monitor. Cowlishaw chose a representation that worked under these restrictions.
How often have you used an XOR in a script?