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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Languag... by _Microft on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:29PM (#35941121)
The title is alluding to an old article called „The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“ by physicist Eugene Wigner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Languag... by balder1991 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:39PM (#35941193)
And "considered harmful" was popularized by the Dijkstra’s article "GOTO Statement Considered Harmful".
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Languag... by ASalazarMX on Sunday May 14, 2023 @05:02PM (#35941331)
Most people recognize the reference, it's a very overused reference, hence PCs complaint.
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Languag... by WithinReason on Sunday May 14, 2023 @05:17PM (#35941411)
I think at this point everyone knows that.
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Languag... by PotatoPancakes on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:02PM (#35941732)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Languag... by CaptainNegative on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:18PM (#35941848)
I think at this point everyone's seen this comic.
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Character-Level Languag... by Jverse on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:12PM (#35941803)
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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