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the idea that computer science, a field which has remained more or less frozen in aspic since 1975, has suddenly come on in leaps and bounds in the last two decades is frankly a bit ridiculous. frankly, there was far more dynamism and interesting development in the first three decades of the field - when resources like memory and CPU speed were hideously constrained - than there has been in the last two, when they were essentially infinite
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