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Techies give an old fashioned Supreme Court decent marks in coding case John Fritze, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices are among the nation s foremost legal minds. But just how good are the nine members of the court at computer programming?
Often teased for their ambivalence toward technology – Chief Justice John Roberts once asked a lawyer in 2010 to explain the difference between an email and a pager – the justices this week were forced to grapple with complicated programming concepts in a multi-billion-dollar copyright dispute between tech giants Google and Oracle.
So how did the justices do at trading their black robes in for white hats? Not too bad, said several programmers and tech leaders who were involved in the case.
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