alt Hacker NewsWe all stand on the shoulder of giants? Should every engineer rediscover the Turing machine and the Von Neumann architecture?
We all stand on the shoulder of giants? Should every engineer rediscover the Turing machine and the Von Neumann architecture?
Of course not. But in this context the point was simply that it’s not exactly a fair comparison.
I’m reminded how hard it is to reply to a comment and assume that people will still interpret that in the same context as the existing discussion. Never mind.