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From: The Translucent Amoebae on 24 Apr 2010 18:52
i was just reading something the other day that suggested that BG was
one of the best programmers ever...
Which is of course; Blatantly Fallacious.
i have read many accounts that insist that he is a mediocre programmer
at best.

Anyways...
i was then wondering - Who are the best programmers...?
In the early days of programming, many very hard & counter-intuitive
problems were solved by some very clever programmers and programming
routines, routines which are now ubiquitous in nearly all
applications.

Is there a repository somewheres that lists these forgotten &
unheralded genius'...?

eh?

Thanx!
From: Paul Magnussen on 24 Apr 2010 22:19
The Translucent Amoebae wrote:

> i was then wondering - Who are the best programmers...?

My nomination: Bill Atkinson. Some of his contributions from Wikipedia:

* Macintosh QuickDraw and Lisa LisaGraf
* Marching ants
* Menu bar
* The Selection lasso
* FatBits
* MacPaint
* HyperCard (and hence everything derived from it)

Paul Magnussen
From: AES on 24 Apr 2010 22:52
In article
<2fec8c3d-da4a-4464-bb36-8f2af3414fad(a)h16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
The Translucent Amoebae <transamoebae(a)seanet.com> wrote:

> i was then wondering - Who are the best programmers...?
> In the early days of programming, many very hard & counter-intuitive
> problems were solved by some very clever programmers and programming
> routines, routines which are now ubiquitous in nearly all
> applications.

Don Knuth? (even if he might be more commonly labelled as "computer
scientist" rather than "programmer")

--
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a racket � a game in which a handful of people are lavishly paid
to mislead and exploit consumers and investors. And if we don�t
lower the boom on these practices, the racket will just go on."
-- Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, 18 April 2010
From: Matthew Russotto on 24 Apr 2010 23:03
In article <2fec8c3d-da4a-4464-bb36-8f2af3414fad(a)h16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
The Translucent Amoebae <transamoebae(a)seanet.com> wrote:
>i was just reading something the other day that suggested that BG was
>one of the best programmers ever...
>Which is of course; Blatantly Fallacious.
>i have read many accounts that insist that he is a mediocre programmer
>at best.

Maybe not Gates, but the story goes that Paul Allen wrote a tape loader in
8080 assembler while on a plane, toggled it by hand into a computer
the next day, and it worked the first time (some versions of the story
have it working after fixing one error). If true, that gets him a nomination
in my book.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
From: Phillip Jones on 25 Apr 2010 15:10
Tim Streater wrote:
> In article<38adnUdmz_mSLE7WnZ2dnUVZ_o6dnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>,
> russotto(a)grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <2fec8c3d-da4a-4464-bb36-8f2af3414fad(a)h16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>> The Translucent Amoebae<transamoebae(a)seanet.com> wrote:
>>> i was just reading something the other day that suggested that BG was
>>> one of the best programmers ever...
>>> Which is of course; Blatantly Fallacious.
>>> i have read many accounts that insist that he is a mediocre programmer
>>> at best.
>>
>> Maybe not Gates, but the story goes that Paul Allen wrote a tape loader in
>> 8080 assembler while on a plane, toggled it by hand into a computer
>> the next day, and it worked the first time (some versions of the story
>> have it working after fixing one error). If true, that gets him a nomination
>> in my book.
>
> Toggled it in? That's for softies. Had he been a proper programmer, he'd
> have used a bar magnet and magifying glass, and coded the bits directly
> onto the disk.
>
> Which just goes to show what a stupid thread this is.
>
Certainly not Gates. his claim to fame is buying software for pennies on
the Dollar (using carrot and Stick Techniques, the repackaging as his
own. He originally was friends with the two Steve's and when he was
rebuffed when asked them to join them in Start up Apple; he created MS
get them, as revenge. The reason why they rebuffed him, he was not
smarter enough, so far as computer science goes.

--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net http://www.vpea.org
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