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His status has been earned. RMS did incredible programming work in the 70s,80s that I think entitles him to make comments (even if they are wrong).
by nkassis 16y ago
His status has been earned. RMS did incredible programming work in the 70s,80s that I think entitles him to make comments (even if they are wrong).
- iuguy 16y ago> RMS did incredible programming work in the 70s,80s No he didn't! He wrote a text editor, a compiler and a library. It's not like he's the only person ever to do that. He also had a lot of help from others. He isn't the sole author of EMACS, GCC or glibc.
- imd 16y agoYou're only counting his Unix stuff. He's credited on the chine nual[0], he wrote bit-twiddling hacks, he published an AI paper with Sussman, etc. His WP page mentions a bunch of stuff. [0]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/two_pi_r/264672507/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/two_pi_r/264672507/
- nkassis 16y agoYep and He also was a one man reverse engineering army during the lisp machine war. His programming skills are really good. His personality is another thing.