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Humor in a Book about Computer Programming
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The art of computer programming from the 1960s has been discovered in old internal files by a downsizing man, who then gave them to a computer researcher Donald Knuth. Among the files, it was discovered that a focus group was conducted to determine whether or not to include humor in the book, but the conclusion was to make it subtle and intelligent.

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