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OK? What concrete human problems human biology faces are resolved by this groups consensus? Obsession with notation does little to improve crop yields, or improve working conditions for the child labor these academic geniuses rely on.
Sure, linguists, glad you found some semantics that fit your obsession. Happy for you!
Most people will never encounter their work and live their lives never knowing such an event happened.
Overall I agree. But in the early learning stages, getting used to interacting with and interpreting the debugger is useful. So when it is essential to resolving an issue, they don't get off in the weeds figuring it all out.
Apples and oranges. Language emerges from human biology which emerges from the physical realm. In the end language emerges then from the physical realm. Trying to de-couple it from physical nature and make it an abstract thought bubble is akin to bike shedding in programming.
Sure, if you accept and agree with Joshi.
No reason to do that though, except to validate some random persons perspective on language. The sky will not open and smash us with a giant foot if we reject such an obligation.
Got my start with C via Linux kernel hacking in the 90s. It's practical so that's where I would recommend. (or a BSD kernel which are often better organized).
With ~17 years of experience already, start with the study of the structure of C programs. Recreate some of it manually, build it, and research the things that do not behave as expected.
Bonus of using an open source kernel is they have a lot of eyeballs on them. They will be pretty dialed in versus studying random Github projects that happen to be written in C.
Would recommend avoiding cognitive overload, wait until you get into comfortable flow writing, building, fixing as needed, simple programs before you dive into lower level debugging, trying to grasp assembly structures that a compiler spits out.