Inventors and heroes
Inventors and heroes
Posted Mar 17, 2022 13:05 UTC (Thu) by excors (subscriber, #95769)In reply to: Inventors and heroes by mathstuf
Parent article: Toward a better list iterator for the kernel
That was Hooke, not Leibniz. (Newton seems to have been rather antagonistic and had several bitter rivalries. And as Master of the Mint he also had dozens of counterfeiters prosecuted and hanged, so those people probably weren't too happy with him either. But (to bring this marginally back on-topic) as Linus Torvalds said when asked about his heroes, "even though [Newton] was apparently not a very nice person, he was certainly one of those people who changed the world in many different ways" (https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text...))