Day of the programmer
September 13, 2017 is the Day of the Programmer.
For the first time the idea of celebrating the "Day of the Programmer" was published by the head of the publishing house "Computer" Dmitry Mendreluk on July 15, 1996. For the programmer's day, it was suggested that the first Friday in September, called "Clean Friday", be considered. In 2002, employees of the Web studio "Parallel Technologies" Valentin Balt and Mikhail Chervyakov organized a collection of signatures in support of the recognition of the 256th day of the year as the official holiday of programmers.
The choice for the holiday of the 256th day of the year is explained by the fact that this number is symbolic, it is closely related to computers, but is not associated with specific persons or codes of specialties. The number 256 corresponds to the number of numbers that can be represented using one 8-bit byte, a common unit of measure for the amount of data. The holiday is unofficially celebrated in Ukraine and a number of other countries.
Congratulations to all programmers (today and tomorrow) and those who teach them at the Faculty of Electronic and Information Technologies of the Chernihiv National University of Technology. We wish the optimal program code and the greatest speed. Let all variables be known, types coincide, and the stack will never be overflowed!
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