One of my old professors where famous enough that cpu manufacturers sent him PCs to check against his open source library. We have been fed the “you won’t be be

One of my old professors where famous enough that cpu manufacturers sent him PCs to check against his open source library. We have been fed the “you won’t be better than the compiler focus on the algorithm” to death by the internet at that time. Seeing him combine his assembly language/c knowhow AND algos made me realize that with FOCUSED experience you can do amazing things. Then again when I told him my favorite language implementation , Haskell/GHC, was using his library he asked: what is Haskell? Focused training is everything. You can’t be good at everything but you can be great at something.