| ▲ | philosophty 5 days ago | |
These guys have each forgotten 10x than you know about programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson | ||
| ▲ | homebrewer 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Being exceptionally talented programmers does not automatically make them good language designers. I can think of a couple of people who may not be as good at programming, but are light years ahead at designing languages (and maintaining them over long term). | ||
| ▲ | henry700 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Fair point. The tragedy is that it could’ve been much more. But that was never the goal... | ||