I get that it's a story, but I can't help but chuckle at some of the situational irony, that so much of the enduring longlasting bits of computing are the little bricks. The coreutils, posix, and the various little options added to them over time.
Most of thr cathedrals get swept under the sands of time. But the bricks keeps being useful.
Another take: mathematicians like to have theorems (cathedrals) named after them ... but they say the height of distinction is to have an eponymous lemma (brick).
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[ 7.4 ms ] story [ 38.8 ms ] threadThe world if programmers didn't choose that job specifically because they like making bricks and ignoring cathedrals
Most of thr cathedrals get swept under the sands of time. But the bricks keeps being useful.
082349872349872 is a fascinating number.
Assuming one places a decimal point after the leading zero, and that it continues to repeat ...349872..., then:
It is equal to the (prime!) NCBI ID for the Phactr3[1] lab mouse gene, divided by 3, and then by each of the first six consecutive primes.
[1] https://www.informatics.jax.org/marker/MGI:1921439
(edited for brevity)