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I will get downvoted for that bur I will ask anyway. So what exactly are his achievements? After reading the article it seems that he mostly produced hot takes
by rvba 3y ago
I will get downvoted for that bur I will ask anyway. So what exactly are his achievements?
After reading the article it seems that he mostly produced hot takes, while others did the actual heavy lifing. Goto considered harmful? And some algorithm that would probably be found by someone else?
Will Linus get a monument made of pure gold when he dies?
- Someone 3y agoFor one thing, he invented semaphores (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/translations/EWD35-English.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/translations/EWD35-English.ht..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming))
- DontchaKnowit 3y agoI mean, lookup his wikipedia. He won a turing award for advocating for structured control flow. That is the modern standard style for programming. He contributed a number of algorithms including the shortest path algorithm.
- davedx 3y agoLOL don't be so ridiculous