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The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story
(gigamonkeys.com)
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kscarlet
60 days ago
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The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story | Dark Hacker News
scrame
55 days ago
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Torturous metaphor that doesn't actually explain macros.
aaronbrethorst
54 days ago
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I'd posit that this is just as good as every programmer koan or story from esr's
The New Hackers Dictionary
jhbadger
54 days ago
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It reminds me of the "The Salvation of Doug" and its rebuttal "The Demise of Bill" that are often used to illustrate the differences in philosophy between genetics and biochemistry even when they are used to analyze the same system.
https://morphogenesis-aplab.weebly.com/beyond-the-bench/basi...
ihuman
55 days ago
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Needs a [2003] in the title
torh
54 days ago
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What a lovely little story. Inspiring even.
blue1
54 days ago
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Too bad an updated edition of PCL never materialised