Computing History onhttps://geekyschmidt.com/tags/computing-history/Recent content in Computing History on<url>https://geekyschmidt.com/images/papermod-cover.png</url><link>https://geekyschmidt.com/images/papermod-cover.png</link></image><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright ©2002-2026, Nicholas Schmidt; all rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/computing-history/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Story of C++: Reflecting on Computing History and Systems Architecturehttps://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-06-06-cplusplus/Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-06-06-cplusplus/<p>I just finished watching CultRepo’s brilliant new documentary, <em>The Story of C++: The World&rsquo;s Most Consequential Programming Language</em>, and it sparked a lot of nostalgia.</p> <p>Looking back, I sometimes wish I had dove deeper into the C/C++ ecosystem early on. My own journey started with BASIC on the Commodore 64, but my career path ultimately deployed me straight into the infosec and sysadmin world. In that sector of the sandbox, tools like TCL/TK, Perl, Python, and Java became my primary operational assets.</p>