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Don Knuth: Computer-drawn Flowcharts (1963)
- lallysingh 16y agoRandom note from the paper: anyone else notice how the programmer is assumed to be a man? 1963, sure, it's ok. But I was still a little amazed.
- cduan 16y agoIt's probably less assuming that a programmer is male, and more the fact that, at the time, "he" was well-accepted as a gender-neutral pronoun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
- AndrejM 16y agoI have to pay to view an article from 1963?
- ugh 16y agoThe sad cages scientific literature is kept in. Universities buy bulk access, that’s where those sites get their money, they don’t really care about anyone else.