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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
graydon@types.pl ("Graydon Hoare") wrote:
Re last rt: A minor quibble. An individual certainly can make a programming language -- I encourage everyone to try, it's not that hard! -- but it'll be small. Any one-person program is usually going to be fairly small. That's ok! Big things have to start small, and small things are also valuable in themselves.
But yes also hero worship in general is a bad idea. Besides "who did most of the actual work" (other people) there's also the question of "where did the ideas come from" (also other people). To a first approximation nothing gets big via one pair of hands or one brain.