The programming talent myth
The programming talent myth
Posted Apr 30, 2015 1:30 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: The programming talent myth by ssmith32
Parent article: The programming talent myth
You seem to be evaluating based on personality and some nebulous "vision" of what the code should be, not a useful finished product.
Not at all. Tcl is an amazingly beautiful and well-written piece of software. Try comparing it's C internals with (bleh) Perl's or (yuuuckkk) PHP's.
As for Bellard, I wasn't specifically thinking only of QEMU, but some of his other amazing hacks like TCC, the JavaScript PC emulator and his record-setting (for the time) computation of Pi.
PostgreSQL does happen to be a more useful or at least more widely-used project than the others, but I think their quality is just as high.
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