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Computer used to be the job title for people who DID do this by hand. It was co-opted by the technology which replaced the job. Of course modern computation is
by gridspy 3y ago
Computer used to be the job title for people who DID do this by hand. It was co-opted by the technology which replaced the job.
Of course modern computation is often impractical to do by hand. It might even be so complex that humans would make too many errors and take to long to ever complete correctly.
- esafak 3y agoCommon use cases were abstracted into libraries and services because nobody should have to reinvent the wheel. This let people operate at a higher level of abstraction and concentrate on more complicated tasks. These too became abstracted, and the cycle repeated.