Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: So, it is widely believed that the recent ascendancy of “so” began in Silicon Valley. The journalist Michael Lewis picked it up when researching his 1999 book The New New Thing: “When a computer programmer answers a question,” he wrote, “he often begins with the word ‘so.’” Microsoft employees have long argued that the “so” boom began with them.
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being a computer programmer myself makes me very proud of my job:-`
my father is a computer programmer for Alwill Software and it is a high paying job~”*
my job as a computer programmer is a very satisfying job ”