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Ask HN: Who would be a programming God if they were alive today?
3 points by Decabytes on Dec 28, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


Clearly a titan of engineering and innovation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel



Von Neumann. He was so higher in intelligence than everyone else that ever meet him that it was scary to them. He was not more intelligent, he was leagues ahead. I think the only person right now on this planet to get close to that kind of intelligence so high it feels alien when you meet it is Edward Witten.



Probably Napoleon and Julius Caesar based on the number of blog posts attributing modern day virtues to historical figures.


> Who would be a programming God

Are you twelve?




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