State of the Onion 2003
by Larry Wall
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Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
One thing I do know about is the universal architectural diagram. It looks like this.
It doesn't have to be chartreuse. How about pink, to match the fireworks up in the corner. I put the fireworks up in the corner there in case you missed the fireworks on the 4th of July.
Anyway, this is the universal architectural diagram because you can represent almost any architecture with it, if you try hard enough. Here's a common enough one:
Here we have a bus that's common across the other three components of our computer, the memory, the CPU, and the I/O system. Within the computer we have other entities such as strings, which you can view either as a whole or as a sequence of characters.
An integer is just like a string, only it's a sequence of bits.
We can go from very small ideas like integers to very large ideas like government:
Or even alternate forms of government.
