>Either you are so vague that people muddle, then google and your book is effectively useless. Or you are so prescriptive that people end up reading a floor plan to build an OS and get squat out of it.
Finding a middle ground is of course key.
Finding a middle ground is of course key.
Knuth stands above them all of course. But its cautionary tale is that it's a book about compilers. I'm pretty sure I'll live to see chapter 12, but as it stands today, there are four more chapters to be released before it. Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming in 1962.