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maryam@mstdn.io's status on Saturday, 05-Feb-2022 09:18:14 UTC Maryam

Ken Thompson's contribution to humanity is grossly underrated.

In conversation Saturday, 05-Feb-2022 09:18:14 UTC from mstdn.io permalink
- Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 05-Feb-2022 09:22:06 UTC Bernie
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  @Maryam I didn't know he's also co-inventor of UTF-8... which seems like an obvious idea today, but Microsoft, Java and many others could only come up with fixed-size encodings that didn't interact well with existing text files.
  
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