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The Accidental Invention of Copy-Paste
Imagine writing code without copy-paste. Imagine rewriting the same line, over and over, like a medieval monk transcribing Bibles by candlelight. That’s not just inefficiency, it’s torture. Enter Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who, in the 1970s, basically saved humanity’s wrists, eyes, and sanity. While working at Xerox PARC (the birthplace of way too many… Read more