Re:Ask HN: Any one else think it's a strange time to be a co...
by brudgers on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @08:25AM
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"Some really exciting stuff I have come aware of: Timesharing, the internet, Smalltalk, Lisp, designing hardware for software, different methods of programming, tools to enhance our understanding of science."
On the timescale of human endeavor, those ideas, like the idea of computer science itself, are all new. But even though old on a relative scale, there is nothing wrong with pursuing an interest in them - lambda calculus, information theory, etc. don't rust as they age. Indeed, what makes many of those computer science ideas interesting is that they are still applicable and relevant today.
On the timescale of human endeavor, those ideas, like the idea of computer science itself, are all new. But even though old on a relative scale, there is nothing wrong with pursuing an interest in them - lambda calculus, information theory, etc. don't rust as they age. Indeed, what makes many of those computer science ideas interesting is that they are still applicable and relevant today.