18 facts about John Skyte
When discussing one or another interesting possibility of the C # language, sooner or later, it comes to well-known representatives of the .NET community and one of the first on this list is Jon Skeet, the guru of stackoverflow.com and the author of one of the most interesting books on the C # language - “C # in Depth” .
To tell about who John is and what he did for the industry, it’s enough to give a few facts about him. Many have heard the facts about Chuck Norris , such as “Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice, "or that" Chuck Norris is the only person who beat the wall in tennis. " But not everyone knows that there are similar facts about John Skythe (the fact of whose existence already speaks volumes).
So, here they are:
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1. John Skeet can divide by 0.
2. If the John Skit code is not compiled, the compiler apologizes for that.
3. If you search Google for “guru”, then Google shows: “Did you mean: John Skit?”
4. For the sake of interest, John Skeet wrote the last project completely in MS Paint.
5. John Skeet does not follow coding standards, his code is a coding standard.
6. Once John Skeet answered a question 42 seconds before it was asked.
7. John Skeet is unchangeable. If something has to change, the whole universe changes.
8. John Skeet has already written a book on C # 6.0. Three years later, Anders Hejlsberg will read it to find out if the C # language team understood everything correctly.
9. John Skit is the only person in the top 100 SO users. The rest are bots written by John to somehow disappear between the answers to the questions.
A. “Philosopher Dinners” wait for John Skit to eat.
B. When John Skeet points to null, null is trembling with fear.
C. If John Skeet publishes a duplicate on StackOverflow, then the original question is closed as a duplicate .
D. When calling John Skit the callback method, the CLR adds “please”.
E. John Skeet does not use the debugger. There are no errors in his programs.
F. CLR uses the Just-In-Time compilation, because every machine instruction must be approved by John Skit.
10. When John Skit’s program runs, the garbage collector rests. Its objects themselves know when to self-destruct.
11. The brain of John Skit works in binary mode.
12. Initially, StackOverflow.com was called JonSkeet.com and was renamed only because of John Skit’s modesty.
13. John Skit has no performance issues. It makes the whole universe wait its turn.
14. John Skeet can execute an infinite loop in 1.55 seconds.
15. John Skeet does not answer questions on StackOverflow, he looks at them and they find the answer themselves.
16. Streams of John Skit never sleep. They are waiting.
17. If the Internet is a web, then John Skeet is a spider.
18. John Skeet can perform pair programming with himself.
Most of the facts are taken from here , some are a bit redone, some are left unchanged. Another fact that is not included in the list above, but which is worth mentioning, is the following. John, in fact, is not a “professional” .NET developer, because at work (on Google) he writes in Java, and C # is just his hobby;)
To tell about who John is and what he did for the industry, it’s enough to give a few facts about him. Many have heard the facts about Chuck Norris , such as “Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice, "or that" Chuck Norris is the only person who beat the wall in tennis. " But not everyone knows that there are similar facts about John Skythe (the fact of whose existence already speaks volumes).
So, here they are:
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1. John Skeet can divide by 0.
2. If the John Skit code is not compiled, the compiler apologizes for that.
3. If you search Google for “guru”, then Google shows: “Did you mean: John Skit?”
4. For the sake of interest, John Skeet wrote the last project completely in MS Paint.
5. John Skeet does not follow coding standards, his code is a coding standard.
6. Once John Skeet answered a question 42 seconds before it was asked.
7. John Skeet is unchangeable. If something has to change, the whole universe changes.
8. John Skeet has already written a book on C # 6.0. Three years later, Anders Hejlsberg will read it to find out if the C # language team understood everything correctly.
9. John Skit is the only person in the top 100 SO users. The rest are bots written by John to somehow disappear between the answers to the questions.
A. “Philosopher Dinners” wait for John Skit to eat.
B. When John Skeet points to null, null is trembling with fear.
C. If John Skeet publishes a duplicate on StackOverflow, then the original question is closed as a duplicate .
D. When calling John Skit the callback method, the CLR adds “please”.
E. John Skeet does not use the debugger. There are no errors in his programs.
F. CLR uses the Just-In-Time compilation, because every machine instruction must be approved by John Skit.
10. When John Skit’s program runs, the garbage collector rests. Its objects themselves know when to self-destruct.
11. The brain of John Skit works in binary mode.
12. Initially, StackOverflow.com was called JonSkeet.com and was renamed only because of John Skit’s modesty.
13. John Skit has no performance issues. It makes the whole universe wait its turn.
14. John Skeet can execute an infinite loop in 1.55 seconds.
15. John Skeet does not answer questions on StackOverflow, he looks at them and they find the answer themselves.
16. Streams of John Skit never sleep. They are waiting.
17. If the Internet is a web, then John Skeet is a spider.
18. John Skeet can perform pair programming with himself.
Most of the facts are taken from here , some are a bit redone, some are left unchanged. Another fact that is not included in the list above, but which is worth mentioning, is the following. John, in fact, is not a “professional” .NET developer, because at work (on Google) he writes in Java, and C # is just his hobby;)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/137317/
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