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agsilvio | 6 years ago

While I can't disagree, we should recognise that this was appealing to early computer scientists.

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seemslegit|6 years ago

We very much do, at least in their hats as hackers (true computer scientists never cared much about actually using computers) there was a point where an online command prompt (one you could edit in real time, as opposed to having to put in a new punch card etc.) was state of the art of interactivity and software interoperability was defined on the level of word sizes and hardware registers, but we can and should move on from that.