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Re:Ted Nelson argues the importance of personal computing (1... by dustingetz on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:19PM (#24463207)
Imagine if "everyone" was literate, what a world that would be /s
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Re:Ted Nelson argues the importance of personal computing (1... by himinlomax on Sunday September 13, 2020 @08:15PM (#24465171)
Is being able to read at the minimum level comparable to programming?

Do you seriously expect 99% of the population to be able to understand something as simple as the demonstration of Euclid's theorem? And yet any programming is more complicated than that, and more analogous.

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