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The Emperor's Old Clothes (1981) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
3 points by tosh on Feb 2, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I think it was Byte Magazine that printed this marvelous rant soon after the speech. Modern corporate culture has definitely gone the way of managers not understanding and explicitly not wanting to understand what their people are doing. Did Ada pan out the way Hoare had feared?


"It must be small".

Which is probably why C is still the widely-used language today.




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