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Dads in programming

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Date: 26 Mar 2022 18:33:57 GMT
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by: Stefan Ram - Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:33 UTC

Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> writes:
>My dad taught himself Basic

|I often, doo, uh, try to describe, uh, computer programming,
|uh, to kids.
| |How many of you can tell, uh, uh, a child what a, uh, a
|software engineer does?
| |At least one man, uh, uh, can. - One man who has.
| |Here's my explanation:
| "The computer gives us words that do doug things.
| What daddy does is make new words to make computers easier to use."
| The Mental Game of Python (minute 21) - Raymond Hettinger (PyBay 2019)

("doug" above is a word I was not able to identify, so
I just kinda tried to type the sounds of what I heard.)