Operating system Quote by Wiki Books

“return 0; will return zero (which is the integer referred to on line 3) to the operating system. When a program runs successfully its…

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“int main(void) is something you'll find in every C program. Every program has a main function. Generally, the main function is where a program…

— Wiki Books

Using int made sense in the 50s. Not any more

— Douglas Crockford

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

— Grace Hopper

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

— Charles Petzold

“When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we obtain a set of numbers we call integers. That”

— Judith Sowder

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

— Ted Nelson

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“This is the reality of operating complex systems; no single person can see the whole system and understand how all the pieces fit together.”

— Gene Kim

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

— Alan Perlis