The Yoda of Silicon Valley

Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by mpweiher on Monday December 17, 2018 @09:58AM (#18699296)

Funny, The NeXT Book by Bruce Webster referred to Knuth as the "Obi Wan of Computer Science".

I guess we can split the difference and agree on Jedi. :-)

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Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by WillAdams on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:13PM (#18721310)

My NeXT Cube was my introduction to TeX, and one for which I will be forever grateful.

I just wish that there was a machine running OPENSTEP 5.0 (as I think of Mac OS X) which I wanted to buy --- I prefer pen computers (the highwater mark of my computing experience was an NCR-3125 running PenPoint paired w/ a NeXT Cube w/ a Wacom ArtZ graphics tablet).

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Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by benj111 on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:40AM (#18700010)

Ah but who is the Han Solo of comp Sci?

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Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by azaras on Monday December 17, 2018 @02:45PM (#18701538)

Linus Torvald

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Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by josephv on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:52PM (#18702108)

He's definately chewbacca.

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