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Comment by sitkack

1 day ago

Relativity was discovered by a single guy.

Which confirms complex matters aren't an issue, being able to handle them might be.

  • wrong, point missed by miles away.

    Maybe, "normal"/"average" devs would help you to get the point.

Not really. Relativity goes back to Galileo at least, and it's development by Einstein relied on Lorentz and Riemann among others. Science really is a process of /standing on the shoulders of giants/ as Newton is reputed to have said.

That doesn't diminish Einstein's achievement of course.

  • I made a facetious comment to parry that of pjmlp, whom also made a facetious comment wrt to compiler complexity and what "one person" can do.

    https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle

    It is like if one tried claiming that Fabrice Bellard was an example of a median dev.

    The number of C++ compilers written by one person is one. And because of this, it gives us no predictive power in what pjmlp was trying to assert.

    I agree with you, Albert and Lorentz and Riemann got caught in the rhetorical crossfire.