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Old enough to know that 'chad' is not just an African country.

Où sont les SNOBOLs d'antan?

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Why do keyboards have an asterisk key?
Sep 5, 2020
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When was this C function definition style, with type declarations of parameters after the parameter list, invented?
Feb 1, 2022
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How should we interpret Dave Cutler's criticism of Unix?
Mar 17, 2020
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What was the first operating system called DOS?
Nov 25, 2019
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What was the first programming language to support “operator chaining”?
Jun 23, 2021
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What was the first Object Oriented programming language?
Mar 28, 2022
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Origin of the 8.3 file names scheme
Feb 17, 2022
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Odyssey game console: what's the deal with "English Control"?
Sep 16, 2021
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What is this programming language having PROC, DCL, LABEL keywords?
May 11, 2020
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Why do we use caret (^) as the symbol for ctrl/control?
May 1, 2019

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