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Great Programmers (2004)
- wslh 13y agoWell, I don't agree with his point of view and I don't agree that Bram Cohen was a good programmer. He has the merit of a good protocol like BitTorrent but not as a good programmer. I remember well the bitTorrent first desktop application: a Python code where they need to embed a whole Python interpreter to run it! an ugly UI that only few people can understand and it was after Napster and a lot of P2P early clients. I don't know many cases where a company needed to acquire another company client for their own protocol! yes, I am talking about uTorrent. I can think in TweetDeck but Twitter never implemented a desktop client initially. I think many programmers think that they are great but only a few are so great (think in people like Carmack) Now, comparing his own point of view with my humble experience with great people I can say it depends... I know great people like Ricardo Quesada who built Cocos2D. Yes, he knows about architecture but his attitude is very different he work and he is passionate. I think in another people and they were not great in architecture but in achieving (almost) impossible things in short time.