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Lost Art of Computer Programming: Existential Programming

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“With philosophy and education as my guides it is time to embark
on a project to truly learn the ins and outs of embedded
programming. It would have been nice if my day job coincided
exactly with my programming goals, but it did not. Not quite.

“I am not down playing the useful experience I gain from my day
job, but the goals here were a little different. The day job is all
about embedded programming for the VxWorks operating system–in my
heart of hearts I wanted to do GNU/linux embedded programming.
Sitting around wishing and hoping I would do GNU/linux programming
would have been foolish.

“So once again I made some investments in my future. I decided
to teach myself embedded GNU/linux programming by reading books,
mailing-lists and by purchasing a small embedded processor
board.

“My first goal was to boot linux on the board. This proved to be
a wonderful journey…”

Complete
Story

Related Story:

CUCY.net: Lost Programming (Reflections from an accidental
programmer)(Dec 12, 2001)

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