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Discussion on: How Programming and Classic Television are Alike

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Vincent A. Cicirello

Any other classic television shows with connections to programming?

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Alexander B.K.

When I was a kid, I liked "Chips" : it's a TV series about two highway patrol officers who used motorcycles in their daily tasks. It featured Eric Estrada who gained popularity among kids in late 1970s to early 1980s.
Perhaps, the two officers can be related to pair-programmers with tasks dealing with security issues, code reviews, debugging, manually garbage-collecting, as well as communicating with clients. They used C++ as the main programming language.

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Vincent A. Cicirello

I remember Chips. Yes, good for a pair programming analogy.