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Recreational Programming

• Erik Aker and Mike Mull • Season 4 • Episode 91

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Does anyone program just for fun anymore?  This episode we're talking about recreational programming, with a focus on A.K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column from the 1980s.  Also, taco shops.


https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/recreational-cs.pdf

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