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It’s actually an interesting fact that every person who was programming in the 80s owns a copy of GEB, which they flipped through a bit and then put on the bookshelf and never actually read.

which they put on the bookshelf and never actually read.

Much like the many unread copies of Knuth's TAOCP.

I would say "never actually finished", but I think this is quite true.

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