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Hi, these books look very interesting.Before I go ahead and try to read them I wanted to ask if they are still relevant today?
by merelydev 6y ago
Hi, these books look very interesting.Before I go ahead and try to read them I wanted to ask if they are still relevant today?
- crististm 6y agoOnly you can answer questions of relevancy wrt your topics of interest. Think about this for a second: relevancy for 'today' yields such a broad area that, I dare say, no one here or elsewhere will have a satisfying answer _for you_.
- carapace 6y agoRelevant to whom?
- merelydev 6y agoRelevant to Systems Programming Languages today, or even modern operating systems. Sorry my English is bad but basically are these books about general principles that don't get outdated.
- carapace 6y agoAh, I would say that, to some extent they are of historical, as opposed to practical, value. That is, if you just wanted to implement an OS using modern best practices then these works might not be as relevant as other, much more recent works. However, many of the fundamental themes, principles, and considerations are unchanged in the intervening years, and often clearer in earlier, simpler systems. And you can find forgotten gems.