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  1. Apr 2022
    1. Adele refused to give Steve Jobs and his engineers a Smalltalk demonstration in 1979, suspecting that Apple would appropriate the technology. Xerox managers overruled her decision and the rest is history!

      important

    2. This programming language was used to create one of the first modern graphics user interfaces (GUIs) featuring windows, icons, menus, and pointers (WIMP), something most of us now take for granted.

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    1. Steve Jobs demanded to see a demonstration of Smalltalk-80 which she reluctantly gave him. Jobs and his team at Apple then incorporated Smalltalk-80 into the programming configuration of the Macintosh computer

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  2. Feb 2022
    1. If your shell encounters EOF while reading a line of input, it should exit gracefully without reporting an error.

      2nd condition to exit shell (ctrl+d also means EOF)

    2. (functions that do not accept the size of your buffer are not able to prevent overflows whereas functions that do accept a size generally do; be sure to check the manpage of any function you use carefully).

      Talking about String Tokenizer