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>You could write a GUI, a game, a text processor, a compiler and even an OS as a one person team. Yup. And I had read earlier that Niklaus Wirth created a com
by vram22 3y ago
>You could write a GUI, a game, a text processor, a compiler and even an OS as a one person team.
Yup.
And I had read earlier that Niklaus Wirth created a computer and many of the layers above, with just a small team. (I guess there must be other such examples from the early days of computing.) Don't have the reference. May be related to his work on Lilith, Ceres, Oberon, etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
Also see Wirth's Law:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
The derived / related laws mentioned there are also interesting.
- pjmlp 3y agoAs Wirth's work fan, his creations were great for their time. I am old enough to have used Native Oberon back when it was still a novelty, and compare Modula-2 to Object Pascal compilers. Nowadays they feel out of place, both in OS capabilities, as well as the languages used to develop them.
- vram22 3y agoWow, cool.