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Everything else is only there for the monkeys pressing the keys.
by BobbyJo 5y ago
Everything else is only there for the monkeys pressing the keys.
- brianjlogan 5y agoI love this :). How much of mankind is creating things sheerly for their pleasure?
- filoeleven 5y agoAnd the monkeys reading the code to see what it does. I don’t recall who it was exactly but some early computing heavyweight, maybe Von Neumann, thought that any language which requires a compiler was a waste of resources.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoComputers used to be so expensive that it made more sense to hire a “programmer” to convert an “analyst’s” flowchart into machine code using only a keypunch.