Textbooks Memes

When computer science textbooks accidentally sound like a serial killer's handbook. Operating system processes have the most disturbing lifecycle imaginable—from "Having Children" (fork) to "Watching Your Children Die" (wait) to "Killing Yourself" (exit). The cold, technical language of OS internals makes it sound like you're learning how to run a digital death cult rather than manage system resources. And "Dumping Core"? That's just what happens after your program has a catastrophic failure—like a digital autopsy report. No wonder programmers have a dark sense of humor. We spend our days creating children only to watch them die.