On 9/16/2015 7:16 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 28/08/2015 22:59, Walter Bright wrote:
People told me I couldn't write a C compiler, then told me I couldn't
write a C++ compiler. I'm still the only person who has ever implemented
a complete C++ compiler (C++98). Then they all (100%) laughed at me for
starting D, saying nobody would ever use it.
My whole career is built on stepping over people who told me I couldn't
do anything and wouldn't amount to anything.
So your whole career is fundamentally based not on bringing value to the
software world, but rather merely proving people wrong? That amounts to living
your professional life in thrall of other people's validation, and it's not
commendable at all. It's a waste of your potential.
It is only worthwhile to prove people wrong when it brings you a considerable
amount of either monetary resources or clout - and more so than you would have
got doing something else with your time.
It's not clear to me that was always the case throughout your career... was it?
Wow, such an interpretation never occurred to me. I will reiterate that I worked
on things that I believed had value and nobody else did. I.e. I did not need
validation from others.
