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by agumonkey 1485 days ago
Interesting question, maybe computing was still a wildlife space to explore and 'more than one way' was felt like a challenge in creativity.. then the field decided it had to become industrial (the term that comes to mind thinking about all the professors talking about UML, diagrams, build swap-in packages like ICs) and suddenly, standardization is the only way.