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90's computing: documentation is a waste of time, learn to read code.
2000's computing: we value working software over comprehensive documentation.
2010's computing: SAAS cloud API RPC warrgarble
2020's computing: You have more CPU in your lap and maybe your pocket than existed in the world in 1990, an impossibly powerful math furnace at your immediate disposal, at a whim. Learning the details of how to put it to your purposes is a sheer cliff face for some mysterious, indiscernible reason.
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