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How old is this? 1989 or something like that? Guido was probably quite young when he wrote it. Looks like LaTeX? Edit: Someone else wrote 1988 which I suppose
by shevy-java 7mo ago
How old is this? 1989 or something like that? Guido was probably quite young when he wrote it. Looks like LaTeX?
Edit: Someone else wrote 1988 which I suppose makes sense, as the latest reference at the end is from 1988 too. So then Guido was 32 years old.
- f1shy 7mo agoI would say roff, not LaTeX
- ksherlock 7mo ago100% correct. The GitHub repo linked elsewhere include this documentation in (dit)roff (-ms) form.
- ramon156 7mo ago> quite young > 32 years old As a ~20 year old this feels so weird to read. I'm still considered young in ~10 years?
- ChrisMarshallNY 7mo agoI’m nearly 64. Back when I was a teenager, people in their 20s were “old farts.” Nowadays, I look at people in their 40s, as “kids.” Here’s my first ever engineering project (1987): https://littlegreenviper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TF30194-Manual-1987.pdf https://littlegreenviper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TF30... I was 25, at the time, and a fairly newly-minted EE.
- FpUser 7mo agoBrother in arms ;) I just turned 65. Own 1 person custom software development company and am very much active professionally. Started programming in the 80s while working as a research scientist.
- romankolpak 7mo agoIt's all relative. When I was 20, I'd consider myself old at 36. Now when I am 36, my definition of old has shifted and it's now somewhere past 50. I guess "old" for a person is just that person 10+ years older :)
- rowanG077 7mo agoYoung is relative. To an 80 year old someone who is 40 is young. To an 8 year old someone who is 20 is old.
- magpi3 7mo agoYes
- swiftcoder 7mo ago> As a ~20 year old this feels so weird to read. I'm still considered young in ~10 years? You'll still feel young too! It's really weird when you get to your mid 30's and realise that all the 20-somethings view you as old
- Scarblac 7mo agoAnd later too! I'm 51 but mentally I still feel like 50.
- Scarblac 7mo agoConsider that careers run from 20 to 70 or so.
- dejv 7mo agoCareers could be very very long. My relative was kicked out of academia after finishing his postdoc and has to work manual jobs till the end of comunism in my country. His career actually started after 60 and he died just a few weeks before his announced retirement at the age of 96, teaching 5 to 6 classes a year in CS department.
- AlienRobot 7mo agoYou'll always be young according to yourself.
- sgbeal 7mo ago> As a ~20 year old this feels so weird to read. I'm still considered young in ~10 years? An anecdote for you... In Summer 1997 i was 24 at a family reunion, listening to my grandmother and several other seniors talk about some recent interaction my grandmother had had with a delivery person. One of her friends asked her, "how old was he?" i'll never forget either her response or my jaw-dropping which followed: "Oh, he was a _young_ man. About 50, I guess." (Yes, she actually stressed the word _young_.)
- sgbeal 7mo ago> As a ~20 year old this feels so weird to read. I'm still considered young in ~10 years? One of these days, maybe as early as your mid-/late-40s, you will be consulting with your a medical doctor and realize that you are the oldest person in the room.
- bigstrat2003 7mo agoIt's all relative. When you're 40+ (which most people attain), 30 does seem young.