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  1. …in reply to @kcimc
    @kcimc yes, i started repeating the mistaken description that i'd been taught. human-readable *was* the goal, english was deemed good enough
    1. …in reply to @ra
      @kcimc and, frankly, in 1960s Bell labs, there's not a whole lot more you could have expected them to do given their limited resources.