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>Becaue it answered a question for them What question? Who asked it? Who claimed it only had manual memory management? >Because they found it interesting. Wh

• sophacles 3y ago
  > Why would someone find this interesting? Because they never put it together? Because it contains new to them information? Because they like the style it was written in? I get it, you don't think it's interesting - but that fact itself is boring, most people find most things uninteresting, why do you feel the need to share? It might help you to pause and reflect on the fact that some people are not you, nor are they here to cater to you. As people they have their own interests and tastes, and maybe, just maybe, they differ from yours. > It's very well known, especially given that almost the entirety of our internet infrastructure runs on it. The knowledge in your head is not the knowledge in my head. Some of it may intersect and be shared knowledge, but you know things I don't and I know things you don't. This place has all sorts of readers from all sorts of backgrounds, some of them are young or new to the field - they need to get this info somehow, otherwise it stops being "very well known". One way of disseminating information is via blogs, another is sharing links to that blog on sites like HN. This may help you understand: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/