TIL how the old generation of engineers thought about their code

POSTED ON: Aug 30, 2021

This quote from the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

Chapter 4 - Head down in the bits

"They were engineers and pragmatists... all of their lives, they had build things. They have connected wires, and made things real. Their ethos was utilitarian. At it's core, all engineering was about making trade offs between the perfect and the workable."

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