r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Affectionate_Run_799 • 1d ago

Other sometimesAuthorsTreatUsLikeFiveYearOld

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u/Available_Canary_517 1d ago

These books are read by asian people too and many may not know what a satan is during the time the book was written. As of now everyone knows due to mass internet penetration but earlier internet was every expensive

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u/slowmotionwriter 1d ago

Older tech books really had that encyclopedic writing style where authors tried to make the text understandable to literally anyone who picked it up. The funny part is that modern readers are way more likely to be confused by the enterprise jargon than by a biblical reference everybody has heard at least once

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u/ProsodySpeaks 1d ago

Isn't it a wheat based food in half the world? 

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u/FelisCantabrigiensis 1d ago

There's a cracking vegetarian restaurant in Hackney called "Temple of Seitan".

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u/WordSaladHasNoFiber 1d ago

I don't know if that's an attempt at an awful joke, but what you're describing is seitan.

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 1d ago

This does not sound like an earlier internet style. This sounds like something from early 2010s. Early internet was the 1970-1990s.

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 1d ago

I'd be surprised there is anyone in an English-speaking country that doesn't know that.

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u/MetallicOrangeBalls 9h ago

All three Abrahamic religions are from Asia.

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u/eclect0 1d ago

In that case I feel like dropping the metaphor would be better than having to explain it