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  • What is a genius programmer (e.g. C, Pascal, Foxpro)?

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to comp.lang.c,comp.theory,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.clipper,comp.databases.xbase.fox on Fri Jul 31 22:33:40 2026
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    What is a genius programmer?
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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.lang.c,comp.theory,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.clipper,comp.databases.xbase.fox on Fri Jul 31 22:47:06 2026
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    On 31/07/2026 10:33 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    What is a genius programmer?


    I don't know. I've found myself to be approximately the smartest
    person in any given project. I don't do active "IQ" measurements,
    nor one-up-manship in team projects.

    I've noticed a lot of comp.lang.c regulars think they own the place,
    and can dictate who is and isn't a "smart programmer." Mostly I find
    such posturing stupid.

    They know who they are.
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  • From R Kym Horsell@kym@sdf.org to comp.lang.c,comp.theory,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.clipper,comp.databases.xbase.fox on Fri Jul 31 17:09:58 2026
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    In comp.lang.c Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
    What is a genius programmer?

    I think I saw a recent example on this group.

    Back in the olden times I worked in the math dept of a small college.
    A story went around that a wizz in group theory was doing a programming
    course as many staff did. He'd been given an exercise up his alley --
    write a program to count the number of ways X. If I think for long enough
    I might get the X, but it doesnt matter.
    He set to with his color polynomials and mental sliderule and figured
    out a formula to calculate the number given the basic parameters of the
    problem and wrote a 3 line read param, calculate result, print result
    and handed it in. Quelle sooprize -- got an F.
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  • From John McCue@jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid to comp.lang.c,comp.theory,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.clipper,comp.databases.xbase.fox on Mon Aug 3 21:15:21 2026
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    In comp.lang.c Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    What is a genius programmer?


    Of course:

    https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

    But to me, someone who gets it done the way the
    user wants it the first time and quickly.
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