Below you’ll find a chronological order of some popular and/or important programming languages. 1840 – Analytical Engine Code The Analytical Engine was a theoretical (i.e., never built) mechanical general-purpose computer, created by British mathematician Charles Babbage. Ada Lovelace came across the idea, and created some code for the Analytical Engine. That’s why she’s considered the […]
I am working on a project where I’ll need to do some animations straight in the terminal with ASCII. I believe you can do that in a sophisticated way using the NCurses library, but as usual I want first to see what I can do with bare C functions and syscalls. I discovered that most […]
Below you’ll find a simple C program that creates 5 worker threads. The threads then wait until the main thread gives them a signal to start the work. I employ different primitives to make this synchronization happen. Note: Remember that you need to compile this programs with the -pthread GCC option. Note 2: When you […]
Below you’ll find a list of some basic yet useful Linux commands for the command line interface (i.e., the shell), which is the interface provided by users to interact with services and programs provided by the operating system kernel. 1. man pages When in doubt about a specific command or program, check is manual pages. […]