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Re:What Monoids teach us about software by jpfed on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:33PM (#15241777)
And then you start wondering whether there are other kinds of weapons you could be exploring, and hey, turns out that's pretty useful.
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Re:What Monoids teach us about software by romwell on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @07:10PM (#15243602)
That's absolutely how it would go, and of course, the generals would never think of exploring weapons without the engineer enlightening them.
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Re:What Monoids teach us about software by coldtea on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:37AM (#15246285)
Well, how many historical instances we have of generals, as opposed to engineers, creating weapons?
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