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> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?
From the description: "The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage"
So I presume it refers to the author.
> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?
Its a bit sad but the obituary is often the best article in the economist. In this case it was a very fitting tribute to a tech hero.
jfb: bringing down the median subscriber income of The Economist for 20 years.
> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?
"About Babbage In this blog, our correspondents report on the intersections between science, technology, culture and policy. The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage, a Victorian mathematician and engineer who designed a mechanical computer"
> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?
The blogger. It is customary at The Economist to assign to a columnist as a pseudonym the name of a foundational figure in whatever the column purports to be about ("Lexington" for their USA coverage, "Schumpeter" for the coverage of business, &c.). One person will write the column for a period, and then move on.
I am slightly bothered by the lack of a '\n'.
It would be pure class if wasn't for the late Mr. Jobs mention. Surely, one can think of hundreds of more concrete examples that C enabled other than iOS, like, i don't know, the Internet?
I am slightly bothered by the lack of a '\n'.
Why?
printf("goodbye, Dennis");
$ ./goodbye
goodbye, Dennis$
printf("goodbye, Dennis\n");
$ ./goodbye
goodbye, Dennis
$
printf("hello, world\n");It would be pure class if wasn't for the late Mr. Jobs mention. Surely, one can think of hundreds of more concrete examples that C enabled other than iOS, like, i don't know, the Internet?