Notices by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (wiert@mastodon.social)

@clacke @jwildeboer @WGAvanDijk @pkalina @smpaley

I archived most and summarised them in a New Year's blog post.

Some of them however had been lost forever.

That's why I immediately archived that blog post in the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250101170124/https://wiert.me/2025/01/01/old-programming-books-had-cool-little-puns-in-their-references-modern-lack-them-in-their-indices-on-the-why-and-history-of-them/

If you have edits to that post, please let me know.

@jwildeboer Turbo Pascal did a similar thing (:

https://wiert.me/2016/11/23/recursion/

@jwildeboer I finally had some time to check out more on the history of these book index puns (having gained back energy after the refurbishing and move last winter exhausted me a bit too much):

Donald Knuth did put a recursion joke in The Art of Computer Programming - Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms.

- Index and Glossary page 631: "Circular Definition"
- Index and Glossary page 633: "Definition, Circular"

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NEIN!!!

DOCH!!!!

OOOOOOHHHH!!!!!

@Gargron I tried to switch. Serious keyboard queue handling issues are holding me back moving as because of #a11y reasons I need excellent keyboard support.

Hopefully @stevetex gets through their treatments and recovers well (fingers crossed, not just out of experience). After that (health first!) I hope to assist their team in addressing those issues.