POSTED September 27, 2009

Guy Steele, in Coders At Work ⚓

"If I could change one thing — this is going to sound stupid — but if I could go back in time and change on thing, I might try to interest some early preliterate people in not using their thumbs when they count. It could have been the standards, and it would have made a whole lot of things easier in the modern era. On the other hand, we have learned a lot from the struggle with the incompatibility of base-ten with powers of two."