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by anarazel 2771 days ago
My point wasn't to belittle the contributions, but to point out that he wasn't a "key figure".
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Yes, "key figure" was clearly inaccurate. But

"A few small changes."

"just a minor rewrite of parts of the commandline client. Mostly made verbose by by renaming structs members / moving members around."

People...really find learning programming hard. Many, many people, even if they try, won't manage to have the intellectual discipline to learn C to the level that you're disparaging. I'm pretty sure that you and I both agree that we shouldn't refer to someone else's hard work in that way.

> I'm pretty sure that you and I both agree that we shouldn't refer to someone else's hard work in that way.

I only said they're not large changes. small != worthless.