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VOTEOld programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
jpluimers
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before: the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which… … Read more
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