Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc...
by JohnBooty on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:16PM
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So many celebrities are celebrities for banal, superficial reasons.
Calling this a "very celebrity grocery list" story is a disservice.
Carmack's one of the most accomplished programmers in history in terms of innovation, skill, and longevity. His words and opinions also carry a fair bit of weight, even today. His contributions and technology choices matter in a way that a celebrity's grocery list do not.
If there's an injustice here, it's the fact that there are many Carmack-level coders out there, toiling away in relative obscurity, who don't have their contributions trumpeted in this way.
Calling this a "very celebrity grocery list" story is a disservice.
Carmack's one of the most accomplished programmers in history in terms of innovation, skill, and longevity. His words and opinions also carry a fair bit of weight, even today. His contributions and technology choices matter in a way that a celebrity's grocery list do not.
If there's an injustice here, it's the fact that there are many Carmack-level coders out there, toiling away in relative obscurity, who don't have their contributions trumpeted in this way.