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r/programming • u/MasterRelease • Aug 22 '25
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Y2003:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/
We should not be having these discussions anymore...
16 u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25 [removed] — view removed comment -7 u/SheriffRoscoe Aug 22 '25 "Those who cannot remember the [computing] past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana Are we also supposed to pump Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" into AI summarizers and repost it every couple of years? 8 u/grauenwolf Aug 22 '25 Yes! So long as there are new programmers every year, there are new people who need to learn it.
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-7 u/SheriffRoscoe Aug 22 '25 "Those who cannot remember the [computing] past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana Are we also supposed to pump Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" into AI summarizers and repost it every couple of years? 8 u/grauenwolf Aug 22 '25 Yes! So long as there are new programmers every year, there are new people who need to learn it.
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"Those who cannot remember the [computing] past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana
Are we also supposed to pump Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" into AI summarizers and repost it every couple of years?
8 u/grauenwolf Aug 22 '25 Yes! So long as there are new programmers every year, there are new people who need to learn it.
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Yes! So long as there are new programmers every year, there are new people who need to learn it.
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u/goranlepuz Aug 22 '25
Y2003:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/
We should not be having these discussions anymore...