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History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (March 10, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Aa and Rob Pike

In 19 78, a friend of mine told me there's this cool new language called c and it's the thing you should use for everything. And i remember that the very first programme that i wrote in c a was a programme for doing a purculation theory - which is a kind of statistical physics thing. But anyway, rob pike am was sort of agonizing about whether he wanted to go work at bellabs as a physica cidet or not. So they just soid, let's just give eunuchs away, um. That was kind of the the idea there.

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