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HN comment orderLogged in today and saw this! Walter here, AMA!
Reading this article and the HN comments, I'm realising something nice: to me, Walter Bright was always up there with the unapproachable gurus of programming. Clearly, he doesn't see himself like that at all, which is a very encouraging thing to realise. It's nice to be reminded that many people I look up to are really just down here, feet on the ground, and that maybe I could accomplish similarly great things by just (keeping) giving it a go.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7555426.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 558
- Total comments
- 263
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-08 | How I Came to Write DFirst breakout | ingve | 238 | 74 |
| 2018-01-08 | How I came to write D (2014) | arunc | 3 | 1 |
| 2018-06-03 | How I Came to Write D (2014)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | jxub | 317 | 188 |