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		calf 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load... Was Knuth talking about deployed software when he wrote that?

nikanj 9 months ago [–]

He wrote that in 1974. Software products were orders of magnitude smaller back then.

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