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I do not agree he was a great programmer. All of his programs are trivial from a computer science perspective. In fact, you can quite easily check this by tryi
by ohdeardear 11mo ago
I do not agree he was a great programmer. All of his programs are trivial from a computer science perspective.
In fact, you can quite easily check this by trying to let an LLM generate a program like grep. It can do that. Now, there also exist programs for which LLMs can't generate code, because it's too complex.
- jacquesm 11mo agoYou have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. And that's fine but it is kind of adding a lot of noise and zero signal.
- ohdeardear 11mo ago[flagged]
- jacquesm 11mo agoYes, so you say, and I'm the pope on alternate Sundays. Appeals to authority are meaningless without identity. Meanwhile, I highly doubt you are qualified to polish Thompson's shoes, all I see is an AC novelty account making dumb claims with hindsight. Anyway, enough with you, off to the ignore list.
- YouAreWRONGtoo 11mo agoNot sure what kind of idiotic website this is that people more qualifed than the average idiot here are "flagged". Thompson is completely irrelevant to computer science. Any idiot can write a program, but only some people can make an actual contribution. Knuth actually did something useful in comparison. Also, Knuth was able to articulate. You are the nobody here.