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    1. Work chat: I mentioned "Gang of Four" in the context of naming/patterns, and was met with crickets. I explained that "GoF book" is how we often referred to Design Patterns because multiple authors—like K&R. They also didn't know K&R. Getting older is weird—especially at work.
  1. …in reply to @coates
    I just showed them a Radio Shack/Tandy CoCo magazine ("Rainbow") from 1988. …not sure they'd seen code listings that you were expected to *type in by hand*, ever before. (-;
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API