I'm curious about the community's thoughts on whether learning C is still valuable in today's world. Here are some of my personal points in favor of learning C:
1. there's a lot of literature on the fundamentals that use C/C++ in examples, and the Linux kernel is still primarily written in C
2. as Dennis Ritchie said, "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." I believe that's the Lindy effect at work
3. learning C can open up a deeper understanding of how things work
Thank you for the implementations! Do you have any suggestions how to test the postscript code on mac/linux? I tried on macos using ghostscript, but I get the following error:
Thank you for the kind words! Re the book form: it is a possibility once I'm done writing the series. And thanks for taking the time to read the articles.