I was looking in my old Bell Labs notebooks and found this (handwritten) passage from 1997. It has some arguable points, and I'd probably say much of it differently today (with fewer male pronouns at least), but I found it worth rereading. I was thinking about the book that would eventually become The Practice Of Programming with BWK.Note that there are whole sentences in this short passage that can't fit in a toot, but the alt text appears unbounded, so grab it there if you care.

The life down under.

@danderson @robpike I, too would love to hear this.I'd also be interested in hot takes about how the naming of both unicode and UTF* led to decades of confusion amongst devs about what they actually are....

Long ago, I was an angry young man who railed against all the injustices of the world, but now time has passed, I have matured and learned so much more about things, and now I am an angrier old man.