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just wanted to say that your site is the reason i joined neocities and got interested in FOSS. i've been following your art and blog for awhile and i'm inspired by everything you make, thank you for sharing your work with us !!!
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iwillneverbehappy
4 months ago
I'm so glad to hear this, thank you very much for reaching out :) I love your website and look forwards to seeing more of your projects and art in the future.
>https://iwillneverbehappy.neocities.org/blog23#os I'd be sad to learn that Operating Systems are becoming less and less prominently taught, but I think I understand why it may be happening. Computer programs have been abstracted from individual instructions to assembly language; from assembly language to high-level languages; and from simple high-level languages to relatively abstract ones. Continued below.
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kaa
4 months ago
You admit, "[t]his may mean nothing in the grand scheme of things." Computer scientists working in Java, Python, or C# hardly need to care what a syscall is. The Tiobe Index confirms these as 3 of the top 5 most popular general-purpose languages, some 27% of the market.
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iwillneverbehappy
4 months ago
You make a good point about the paradigm shift from assembly languages -> abstracted languages. But it's definitely interesting to see how this shift affects (admittedly specific instances of) CS curricula. Compilers and computer architecture courses seem to have gone down a similar path, so I wonder how the general CS curriculum will look 5, 10 years from now. Anyways, thank you for the thoughtful reply :-)
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Ah, thank you. I am flattered. ^_^ I think the illustrations on your site are so wonderful.