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We're discussing apples and oranges. You're saying computer science history objectively exists. I'm lamenting a lack of knowledge of it.
by ethbro 7y ago
We're discussing apples and oranges.
You're saying computer science history objectively exists.
I'm lamenting a lack of knowledge of it.
- pvg 7y agoNo, I'm saying the supporting evidence for such lamentations is much weaker than the evidence for the opposite view.
- ethbro 7y agoAh. In that case, the existence of books (even popular ones) and ACM conferences isn't strong support that most devs are well-versed in computing history, to me. In the same way that the medical field has similar historical output, but the number of everyday doctors versed in medical history is quite low. I'll dig around today and see if I can find representative polls related to computer history. Surely SO has asked a question at some point...