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• nabla9 7y ago
  It was the implementation part that shows organizational and technological skill. Just coming up with the overall idea does not mean you can pull it off. Neal Stephenson can't handle details needed. CLANG fiasco was great demonstration of that.
  • T-A 7y ago
    According to https://qz.com/268852/neal-stephensons-failed-500000-video-game-and-the-perils-of-using-kickstarter/ https://qz.com/268852/neal-stephensons-failed-500000-video-g... that's backwards: the problem with CLANG was not its implementation, it was that the result was a boring game. As for implementation, consensus among those who've bothered to look at the original Bitcoin code is that it wasn't very good, most likely not the work of a professional programmer.
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