> establish a procedure for nightly backups. The senior gnome seemed to think I was going to put the computer in reverse, but the apprentice's son had an IBM PC and he quickly whispered that "backup" meant making a copy of a program borrowed from a friend and why was I doing that?
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This is of the same golden era of writing as The Story of Mel - A Real Programmer ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html ) which was from '83.
Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering - https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw