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Afraid not. A programmer re-invents the wheel to fully understand the inner workings. I've never heard of anybody (non-programmer) who spent months/years to pro

• gambiting 12y ago
  He worked in a weapons factory, so I imagine he wasn't there filling spreadsheets. He was probably operating heavy machinery,so even if he wasn't an engineer by education, he had the knowledge needed to do it.
• Pxtl 12y ago
  If you weren't a programmer when you started, you are when you finished. Wasn't Torvalds pretty much a hobbyist when he began?
  • rada 12y ago
    Torvalds graduated from college with a Master's in Comp Sci.
    • astrodust 12y ago
      Although I'm sure Torvalds was an exception, I've met several people that that level that still can't code to save their life. Being a Comp Sci. major and being a programmer are often orthogonal.
    • Pxtl 12y ago
      Yeah, but I think he was still an undergrad student when he started working on Linux, wasn't he?
• hobs 12y ago
  There was recently the case of a kid in the australian outback who wrote his own OS from scratch as he was too remote to get anything, it happens more than you think. Pretty much the same thing as far as I am concerned.
• swah 12y ago
  Maybe the poster is talking about the last phrase?
• deleted 12y ago
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