Timeline for Are word origin questions on-topic?
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| Jul 1, 2018 at 4:53 | comment | added | BarbaraKwarc | Questions about history help people understand why things are the way they are today, and understand the reasons behind them, which usually makes them appreciate them more instead of ridicule it for being "some old cruft irrelevant to present day" or that "they could have done this better". | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 17:21 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 22:09 | comment | added | user53019 | You raise some solid points. And it looks like the question has been re-opened already. | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 21:32 | comment | added | Rachel | @KarlBielefeldt The quote from Mark was from 3/21/2012 and we left beta on 12/16/2010, so I would say yes it's still part of the scope. | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 21:30 | comment | added | Karl Bielefeldt | Is programming history still part of the scope? It's not in the FAQ. I thought that was one of those things that got descoped when we left beta. | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 21:29 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 350 characters in body |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 21:26 | comment | added | Rachel | Karl and Shog both have provided good answers about why questions like this are considered worthwhile. My answer was merely to point out the fact that Programming History in general has been discussed before, and is considered on-topic for the site. I'll update my answer to clarify that :) | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 21:20 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | That question has specific applicability to language design and the way compilers parse source code. An understanding of the issues raised there can have a direct bearing on programmer effectiveness. | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 21:17 | history | answered | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |