What developer does not belong to the list? Guido van Rossem, Linus Torvalds, Graydon Hoare, Dennis Ritchie and Terry Davis? Exactly, there's one guy in the list nobody has heard of. Let's keep it that way. I've seen enough. The Jordan Walke of programming languages.

I had to Google guido van russem and Dennis Ritchie

ohhh first guy is dutch guy who made python. yeah um not a fan lol

Dennis Richie made C. cool

graydon haore was on the home page of obsidian.md though and because I liked obsidian so much I was like "ok" to my friend pushing rust on me. said friend wanted us to do rust together but I didn't start when he did, so when I started late i told him he could teach me it now since he's ahead. but anything I send to him... it seems like he stopped learning the language and didn't bother cuz he just ignores all those messages. ok thanks friend 😩
anyway apparently graydon did it with some other dude... who had made JavaScript lol

I don't think Linus Torvalds made a language, did he? Terry Davis made holyC or something

graydon hoare is CANADIAN. oh no this is gonna be a Canada vs dutchland battle

@jestdotty They're all great devs that achieved something. Most of them are C. Maybe I shouldn't have pasted the Ruby on Rails guy in it but I like him a lot. No ruby experience, but I've watched hours of interviews with him. He talks as enthusiast about coding as I do. He sells source code, how awesome is that. If you buy his product you get the source and can do what you want with it. Commercial open source. Not a bad idea. I'm looking at my gitea server and I'm like, what's actually wrong with nerds giving this away for free. I mean, i'm totally in for sharing knowledge. Live on it. But this is not knowledge, this is just free labor & effort what would be better in boss's time. Hmm, should donate smth along with the message that they don't fucking decide what I execute as root and what not. The ruby guy is also a racecar driver btw. Wtf

Actually, it's van Rossum.

Walrus van Rossum.

@Liebranca Correct. We have another famous Dutchy and his name is (Maarten) van Rossem. I always mix those two up knowing their names are slightly different. I can't remember who's who. How do you remember that so well? Maarten van Rossem is considered smartest of dem Dutchies. I allow it, wtf what knows that guy a lot. It's insane. Walking LLM. Many Dutchies like me use his podcast to get to sleep. Also young parents use the podcast to get the kids to sleep. His information is interesting but he has a very calm voice. I'm a fan despite he's a lefty. He was originally a history teacher. Wish that I ever had such teacher. But I have my dad. He was a teacher too. He's not dead, he's retired.

I'm building statistics from books with C. How much words are capitalized etc to recognize spam and use this data maybe for ML later. I had one book that took four minutes while normally a book takes one second. And in the end of that book - it crashed. Division by zero. words / sentences(0)

@Liebranca more stats will come. % of forbidden words and stuff. I just had a book with 420 words hihi. Here is the app https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/.... I really like to host my own repository. Such freedom. It also have a package registry and check that API being beefy: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/api/... (You can test a call by pressing "Try it" and entering my username(retoor)). Hundreds of example api calls does this system have. There are no better docs. Page is generated in 50ms average while there's so much info on it. The magic of SQLite I guess. And git data is ofc just file. Github worked great always but now I'm used to this repo server i can't go back. So snappii with integrated build server / build history.

Linus because he is actually important.

@retoor How do I remember Walrus' last name?

Let me tell you a story. A guy on a board I used to lurk around comes in one day and posts some py script. I don't remember what it was, copying chunks of an image to another or something, it doesn't matter.

The point is there's a loop, and the result is wrong. Everyone looks at the code and concludes he's doing everything correctly -- no one can find a single fault within his script. So we collectively conclude that the issue must be elsewhere.

The guy comes back say a week later and says hey, I double checked, and I'm sure I didn't mess up anywhere else. We say how, and look at his code again. Still nothing.

Shit remains a mystery for like a month, until someone finally spots that there's *one* doubly-indented line somewhere in the loop. Facepalm.

That's my favorite bug of all time; it's the highest form of python being an irredeemable piece of shit.

So of course I remember his fucking name. I curse it before I sleep.

@retoor Also, your code is pristine. I'm impressed. I don't get the fascination with statistics but that's alright.