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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by comp1927 on Saturday April 11, 2015 @11:37PM (#9362029)
Latex's author already prove it wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by gamegoblin on Saturday April 11, 2015 @11:58PM (#9362093)
Knuth did TeX. LaTeX was Leslie Lamport. LaTex is short for Lamport TeX.
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by zaroth on Sunday April 12, 2015 @03:28AM (#9362505)
Quite the exclusive clique they've got there.
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by isomorphic on Saturday April 11, 2015 @11:39PM (#9362034)
I grant your point, but that's a bit like saying Einstein was a good physicist.
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by raldi on Saturday April 11, 2015 @11:39PM (#9362033)
Prove what wrong?
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by isomorphic on Saturday April 11, 2015 @11:52PM (#9362070)
I think comp1927 means Knuth proves that one can get better with age. Which is a fine point, but Donald Knuth is a difficult lead to follow.
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009) by switch_bro on Sunday April 12, 2015 @10:09AM (#9363384)
Keep in mind that Knuth is not a software engineer - he makes his living as a tenured professor at Stanford (these days professor emeritus).
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