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Why are we ignoring the second author? :)



Actually, why are we (mostly) ignoring Charlie Gordon? Every second comment here seems to be ready with praise for Bellard (who no doubt deserves it), but Gordon seems like the right hand man, a significant part of the dynamic duo here and very much a unsung hero barely noted.


who is this Charlie Gordon ?


Seems like a pseudonym; Charlie Gordon is the name of the protagonist in Flowers for Algernon.


> Seems like a pseudonym; Charlie Gordon is the name of the protagonist in Flowers for Algernon.

Just had a vision of a hacker blog where the author starts out writing in the most godawful VB6 spaghetti, gets some sort of brain operation and subsequent blog postings are like Linux booting in RISC-V implemented in Conway's Game of Life. Then suddenly a mouse dies and the quality gradually reverts back to how cool the <BLINK> tag is in HTML.


I suspect that too. Note that FFmpeg was also published under a pseudonym Gérard Lantau.




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