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Although I don't really consider a lot of what we (programmers) do engineering, it does make me happy that we do is documented reasonably thoroughly if it's ope
by mhh__ 5y ago
Although I don't really consider a lot of what we (programmers) do engineering, it does make me happy that we do is documented reasonably thoroughly if it's open source.
There's so much brilliant work of the past only accessible in either archives or spoken word, whereas code can at least be preserved as-is.
- WalterBright 5y agoWhat I love about Github is not only having archival storage in the cloud, but all the forks are copies on individuals' computers. git may turn out to be a far more valuable invention than Linus ever imagined.
- mhh__ 5y agoThe distributed aspect was a goal from day 1