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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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