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Re:What is money, anyway? by unmole on Monday March 28, 2022 @07:31AM (#30829356)
Right, and programmers should first learn Panini's grammer before they start writing code in constructed languages.
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Re:What is money, anyway? by zeckalpha on Monday March 28, 2022 @08:53AM (#30830015)
It is spelled grammar.

My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics. But I was a linguistics major…

I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course.

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Re:What is money, anyway? by unmole on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:17PM (#30832934)
> It is spelled grammar.

Maybe it's interesting to linguistics majors but the rest of us tend to ignore typos when the meaning is clear from the context.

> My favorite course I took in college was historical linguistics.

And?

> I do expect CS students to take a history of computing course.

The overwhelming majority of them don't and seem to do just fine.

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Re:What is money, anyway? by zeckalpha on Monday March 28, 2022 @07:11PM (#30836728)
Then history is doomed to repeat itself…
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