Or on second thought, the same thing in MacGofer.

program a real OS without having it deadlock or crash everyday...

I agree with xtrmntr. As I see it, in order to program an OS, it must support the applications it runs, remain stable through running them, and otherwise provide the foundation for all programatic functions. Please don''t flame me too much, as I am just a beginner.

Coding a high level programming language

perception -> Consciousness -> life

Programming a 3d engine in Qbasic shouldn''t be too hard. Just wait 50 years and the computers will be fast enough.

quote: Original post by sEntiEnt

Coding a high level programming language

perception -> Consciousness -> life

i then, am ultimate.

Hello world of course!

Just kidding.
I think creating the perfect, superfunctional, 100% error free operating system, with a super easy language (also superfunctional and error free) would be quite the feat.

Then all other programming feats become easier!

I have to agree with the Chris Hargrove quote.

You really can''t look at any one problem or class of problems and say that if you have mastered those, then you are a programming god. For example, (I am not trying to be egotistical here) let''s compare John Carmack with myself. People here have mentioned 3D engines and multi-threading.

In Carmack''s own words, he is only now comfortable writing multithreaded applications. Myself, I been doing multiple thread, multiple process and multiple node applications for a long time. If you think multithreading is hard, you should try developing mission critical distributed databases that have to endure localized failures. When it comes to multithreaded applications, I can program circles around Carmack.

Now, 3d engines. No need to go into detail here. He is god, I am an idiot.

So, who is the better programmer? Who knows? I have learned a lot reading Carmack''s code. I would hope, that if Carmack ever read any of my code there might be something useful he could learn from me. But I am not holding my breath.

FYI: My programming hero? Dave Cutler, currently of Microsoft, but best known for his work in the OS department of Digital Equipment Corp.

Tim

The hardest challenge must be a challenge that can''t be solved by a brute force method. Everyone can code a good 3D engine on an infinetly fast computer in an infinite amout of time... I think even one of todays Neuronal Networks can become smarter than any human if you run theom on a 100 billion exaplop CPU with 100 million terabyte of RAM...



Tim

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I think the biggest programming feat would be being happy with what you coded 100% and making everyone 100% happy with your code. That is a real challenge :-p




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