<p>My last day reminded me of how freeing it is to not teach on a rigid bell schedule. Someone asks, "can we talk about linking?" This leads to an impromptu 30-40 discussion involving operating systems, libraries, system calls, static linking, dynamic linking, shared libraries, dynamic loading, memory organization, and even a bit of security concerns. Wait, where were we? Oh yeah, compilers. Let's get back to that now.</p>
