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|    Derek M. Jones to All    |
|    Re: PhD or books on history of individua    |
|    24 Nov 18 19:49:54    |
      From: derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk              Louis,              > You might be the person to read some of those papers and write one of       > those books. You'll have a perspective that the language designers       > themselves might not have had.              I have enough enthusiasm to read them, not write them.              Historians of computing tend to be primarily hardware based       https://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/03/13/historians-of-computing/              Social scientists and English majors are missing out on       writing about an unexplored area of knowledge.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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