r/ProgrammerHumor 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