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This kind of tech writing — the historical/anthropological - especially wrt web tech is far more helpful to me than the technical & how-to docs etc. Just knowi
by wellpast 9y ago
This kind of tech writing — the historical/anthropological - especially wrt web tech is far more helpful to me than the technical & how-to docs etc.
Just knowing why things are creates a much better context for me to place the knowledge, understanding and appropriate use for each property/feature etc.
- normaljoe 9y agoI completely agree. I went down the rabbit hole a few months ago and started reading some of Dennis Ritchie's papers on his home page. I particularly liked the C history linked below. I found it interesting around how the limits of the memory drove creation of things like the ++ an -- operators. Limitation being the mother of invention it's amazing, at least to me, how far we have come in such a relatively short period of time. https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html