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And the magazine article (mentioned in the Twitter thread - "Dr digital" page 98 - 73 magazine 1984): https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-05/page/n97/

by e12e 7y ago

And the magazine article (mentioned in the Twitter thread - "Dr digital" page 98 - 73 magazine 1984): https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-05/page/n97/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-05/page/n97/mod... The online version is pretty much unreadable for me on Firefox/mobile, but the Pdf is ok: https://archive.org/download/73-magazine-1984-05/05_May_1984.pdf https://archive.org/download/73-magazine-1984-05/05_May_1984... Ed: corrected link. The article itself would be a great hn submission - a comparison of time (writing+execution) of a simple program in basic, Pascal and cobol..

yanowitz 7y ago
Came to say the same thing. Fascinating look into a time machine—what problems are we still wrestling with and what celebrated innovations then do we see as problematic legacies now (e.g., when a language allows 1 + ‘1’ to equal 2)? Very fun read.