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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Book: "You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:02:05 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2211131046080.43868@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)

I spotted this when glancing through a book catalogue; well, with a title 
like that how could I miss it?

Subtitled "How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World", edited by Torie Bosch 
and illustrated by Kelly Chudler (can't say that I've heard of them).

Summary:

``Programming is behind so much of life today, and this book draws together
  a group of distinguished thinkers and technologists to reveal the
  stories and people behind the computer coding that shapes our
  world.  From how university's [sic] databases were set up to
  recognise only two genders to the first computer worm and the
  first pop-up ad, the diverse topics reveal the consequences of
  historical decisions and their long-lasting, profound implications.
  Pb $34.99''

Lines of code, eh? :-)

Abbey's Bookshop: www.abbeys.com.au

Disclaimer: I have no connection with them, but I'll likely buy it.

-- Dave

             reply	other threads:[~2022-11-13  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-13  0:02 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2022-11-13  0:25 ` [TUHS] " Kenneth Goodwin
2022-11-13  1:12   ` Rob Pike
2022-11-13  1:52     ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-13  1:12 ` Stuff Received
2022-11-13 21:58   ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-14 22:48 ` Dave Horsfall

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