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Don Knuth: Computer-drawn Flowcharts (1963)

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=367620

by Rod • 16 years ago

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lallysingh• 16 years ago

Random note from the paper: anyone else notice how the programmer is assumed to be a man? 1963, sure, it's ok. But I was still a little amazed.

cduan• 16 years ago

It's probably less assuming that a programmer is male, and more the fact that, at the time, "he" was well-accepted as a gender-neutral pronoun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun

AndrejM• 16 years ago

I have to pay to view an article from 1963?

ugh• 16 years ago

The sad cages scientific literature is kept in. Universities buy bulk access, that’s where those sites get their money, they don’t really care about anyone else.

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