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by rockybernstein 3177 days ago
By the way... the person who wrote Turbo Pascal, Anders Hejlsberg, in fact went to Microsoft and was the principle architect behind Microsoft's J++, C#, probably the .NET runtime system. He is a lead architect there. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg

One of the things that I did notice in the 2nd edition is its preference to cite GCC in references.
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PaulHoule 3177 days ago
Also the availability of open source has made a large improvement in courses such as OS and compilers.

Back in 1990, students in an OS class might be doing pretty well if they manage to get something that boots. Writing a compiler from scratch is also pretty tough.

Today students can write device drivers for Linux as well as other modules, also hack on open source compilers.

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