Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED.+/MQMg8ZuP6sb77TNP8pCQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Louis Valence Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: What is the current state-of-the-art? Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:25:57 -0300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: <868squgy22.fsf@example.com> References: <3a72a169-3ce4-498f-a5e3-dd21cc318b1a@googlegroups.com> <86r24rv5mi.fsf@example.com> <36e07578-b7ae-4755-b7d7-ed054066b9e5@googlegroups.com> <80f98799-26de-4cf6-95ae-a1815d5893f9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: +/MQMg8ZuP6sb77TNP8pCQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rkg2lJi0OwpvmeTGjpsA3dSnEew= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:10189 Chad writes: > On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 1:56:30 PM UTC-7, Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen wrote: [...] >> > You talk to a computer science student nowadays and they ``surely >> > learned their c programming language'', but never heard of Dennis >> > Ritchie or Brian Kernighan, nor have read the book. They prefer to >> > learn from badly written essays and poorly crafted paragraphs. It makes >> > no sense. >> >> For sure, ask a Javascripter: What is the binary digit for one? They >> think it's a trick question. > > It actually turns out to be a tricky in JavaScript. Seriously. I could > probably give you two cases that would make you go wtf. Show me the money!