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Re:The Night Watch [pdf] by deepzn on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:01PM (#34524757)
Great post, and funny writing. Do read. Systems programming IS crucial. One wonders if we do end up going to an apocalypse scenario, we would realize it's importance.
Re:The Night Watch [pdf] by BirAdam on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:01AM (#34530209)
Not really. In an apocalypse, we’d take anything that worked. I think the more fundamental issue is that software engineering (and computer science generally) are immature fields that put zero emphasis on the history of the field or on the “why” of that history.