22 Nov
2011
22 Nov
'11
11:08 a.m.
In article <4ECBE7B1.9030301 at bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
On 11/22/11 10:05 AM, Richard wrote:
ok, we're back to my comment on being a good programmer. When I read
the interviews in "Programmers at Work", of which Simonyi is one, and
I see the example code they're publishing and the answers they're
giving, I'm like "sounds like most people I've worked with", not OMFG!
he's a genius! a prodigy! one-in-a-million!
I'm just sick of seeing people who became wealthy because they were in
the right place at the right time being called "genius" and
"prodigy".
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who happened to be lucky enough to work at MSFT
He was working at PARC on Bravo-X and was courted by MSFT
to develop WSIWIG word processing. He had a history with
Lampson/Thacker et. al. back to the Berkeley/BCC days. You
don't stay with that crew based on just luck.