@SuricrasiaOnline You might like George Sheldrick's "Zero dependency philosophy"; every program he writes is 100% stand alone, no dependencies other then the core libraries of the language (and at the start, not even that!)

That's let him maintain Shelx since the *early 70s*. Like, he still puts out new versions of it when the first versions were distributed by *mailing people punch cards* (I believe it has had two-three major upgrades in the 80s, 97 and 2013), but still by sticking to whatever the basic Fortran features were of each era he's made this thing run on everything from 1970s mainframes to PDP-11s, to WIndows and Linux to Android!

@erinbee that is fair, though I wonder if that is simply "they use more butter then Star Fleet regulations allow and no one wants to admit it"

@erinbee It might be a bad idea for a man with a bad heart to drink Monster...

@erinbee I haven't had those, but I've heard them called "Chemical tasting" by people who like it (Nile Red on youtube), could be he doesn't like that flavour?

@erinbee Could also be what he calls Early Grey in the 24th century isn't what we call Early Grey, there are a number of recipes that have changed over time like that, for example Red Velvet Cake

@erinbee Why do you think replicated tea would taste bad?

@ajroach42 I hear back in Windows 3.1 you could define an entire text box with like one line or something like that. You just had to tell it what the buttons you wanted were and what they should do and the OS would do everything else for you

@opfez University libraries. I've sent in requests for random documents and I'll get a scan made in Germany emailed to me. Book I feel like reading for fun? Shows up a week later if it is in any library in North America.

ALL FREE

@nonphatic I mentioned this on TeX Stack Exchange and multiple people commented; I see a former AMS member replied to you, and someone else in the chat mentions having been involved with those documents XD

Small world

@clacke @lpwaterhouse I would say anyone who has formally studied it at any level after high school, or worked in scientific research?

@jautero @clacke @lpwaterhouse Or in an apprenticeship, or moved into it professionally (rare, but it happens. Programmers wind up working on scientific software more and more and then wind up involved in the science, for example.)

@lpwaterhouse Tech doesn't count as science for the most part; you don't need to know anything about the physical world to be an excellent programmer, for example. That is all logic and math and algorithms.

@lpwaterhouse ahhhhh