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Also, how about: - Donald Knuth (TeX, METAFONT); even more surprising here given that he's mentioned in the article a few times on other accounts; https://en.w
by akavel 11y ago
Also, how about:
- Donald Knuth (TeX, METAFONT); even more surprising here given that he's mentioned in the article a few times on other accounts; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
- Fabrice Bellard (QEMU, FFmpeg, & other) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
- nickpsecurity 11y agoGood examples.
- graycat 11y agoRight. You saved me from making this outstanding correction. So, Knuth did TeX, METAFONT, Web, Weave, and Tangle for literate programming, and published the literate version of the code. Essentially just one guy.
- xiaoma 11y agoOr Bill Joy: vi, c shell and large parts of BSD.
- kragen 11y agoKnuth had help from his graduate students. Some of them did their dissertations on work they did in TeX and I think METAFONT too.
- akavel 11y agohmm; "[citation needed]", although I've already found something via Wikipedia: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q2/msg00419.html https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q2/msg00419.html "[...] Knuth definitely wrote most of the code himself, at least for the Metafont re-write, for which I have pesonal knowledge. However, some of his students (such as Michael Plass and John Hobby) did work on the algorithms used in TeX and Metafont. He also did have a programmer (David something) working for him at one point, but not as I recall at the time of the Metafont re-write." That said, some solid source on the earliest phases, as well as on particulars of the specific "algorithms", would be nice to learn.