The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

Re:The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders by rvba on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:49AM (#39142549)

I will get downvoted for that bur I will ask anyway. So what exactly are his achievements?

After reading the article it seems that he mostly produced hot takes, while others did the actual heavy lifing. Goto considered harmful? And some algorithm that would probably be found by someone else?

Will Linus get a monument made of pure gold when he dies?

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Re:The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders by Someone on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:35AM (#39143815)

For one thing, he invented semaphores (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/translations/EWD35-English.ht..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming))

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Re:The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders by DontchaKnowit on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:52AM (#39144038)

I mean, lookup his wikipedia.

He won a turing award for advocating for structured control flow. That is the modern standard style for programming. He contributed a number of algorithms including the shortest path algorithm.

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Re:The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders by davedx on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:02AM (#39176328)

LOL don't be so ridiculous

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