Interesting thought on the origin of these tests. It may also be a leftover from a bygone era. Nowadays software development is mostly a matter of gluing preexisting software / pieces of code together. If it's difficult somebody probably did in in OSS for fun. I expect things were different 20+ years ago.
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Interesting thought on the origin of these tests. It may also be a leftover from a bygone era. Nowadays software development is mostly a matter of gluing preexisting software / pieces of code together. If it's difficult somebody probably did in in OSS for fun. I expect things were different 20+ years ago.