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> Notch his success has nothing to do with being good at programming. To me, being able to sell (not give away, charge) thirteen million applications that you
by laureny 13y ago
> Notch his success has nothing to do with being good at programming.
To me, being able to sell (not give away, charge) thirteen million applications that you write is a testament that you are good at programming.
Now, "programming" has many different dimensions, but Notch achieved something that very, very few developers will ever able to achieve in their lifetime (I'd argue he's actually the only solo programmer who's ever been able to achieve such a goal, beating even icons such as John Carmack).
- rschmitty 13y agoTo me that means you are good at creating something fun. Let's be perfectly honest, after Quake 3, nothing id put out was really fun despite all the technical achievements Carmack made with the subsequent engines I'm not saying Notch is a bad programmer, I admire him very much, but you need to keep the success / marketing / fun factor separate from the actual code
- hebz0rl 13y agoI mean we have to look at the conext here. Programming a game has very different goals than for example writing a service which should never crash.