Yaniv Aknin

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In the early 2010s I wrote a few blog posts about technology while traveling APAC with my wife. Much of it is useless these days, but a series of articles called Python’s Innards may still be of value (and still gets regular traffic).

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Python's Innards: Introduction (2010)

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A friend once said to me: You know, to some people, C is just a bunch of macros that expand to assembly . It’s been years ago (smartasses: it was also before llvm , ok?), but the sentence stuck with me. Do Kernighan and Ritchie really look at a C program and see assembly code? Does Tim Berners-Lee surf the Web any…