Re:Ask HN: Who is the best programmer you know?
by mikewarot on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:31PM
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Ward Christensen did some amazing things in the 1970 & 80s.
There was once a shortest useful program contest, his entry was 2 bytes long[1]
When he lost the source to a program he wrote, he created ReSource, a disassembler[2] that got forked a few times over and eventually gave us the NSA's GHIDRA
There was once a shortest useful program contest, his entry was 2 bytes long[1]
When he lost the source to a program he wrote, he created ReSource, a disassembler[2] that got forked a few times over and eventually gave us the NSA's GHIDRA
[1] https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/underground/BBSes/CBBS/199...
[2] https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-January/...