The programming talent myth [LWN.net]

The programming talent myth

Posted Apr 30, 2015 10:16 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: The programming talent myth by dskoll
Parent article: The programming talent myth

> his record-setting (for the time) computation of Pi.

…which was also an IOCCC submission.

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The programming talent myth

Posted Apr 30, 2015 11:47 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, so what? You really have to be an excellent programmer to enter the IOCCC because you have to thoroughly understand the nuances of good software development so that you can outrageously do the exact opposite. Just like you have to be a really good writer to write a successful parody.

I think you'll find that the list of IOCCC winners contains a lot of excellent programmers.

The programming talent myth

Posted Apr 30, 2015 12:19 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It wasn't meant to be detrimental to the achievement; it's even more impressive that it was a world record setter *as well as* being IOCCC-quality (heh, now there's a metric I'd like to see for codebases).