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by davemp 2631 days ago
Top three replies to the PS thread:

> . . . It's a miserable language, full of unexpected behaviors and badly designed features. . .

> I haven't met a single person who likes PowerShell. It's perhaps the textbook example of ugly design that looks technically consistent but utterly unfriendly and mind bogglingly verbose. . .

> PowerShell is one of the few bits of software which has actually made me throw a computer in anger. The idea has potential but the implementation is just bad. . .

No one is really looking into his IC but the thread is not positive. I have no idea who contributed what, but I’m not sure anyone would want to claim part of the credit for powershell.

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Here’s a thread for man behind AMD’s zen architecture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989551

First comment:

> Zen is the work of a huge team of talented engineers. To single one out as "the man behind Zen" seems very wrong. . .

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The man behind objective-c: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422695

Second comment:

> The man behind Objective-C these days (and for the past decade plus) is this guy: http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/

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For the other threads I saw, some were actually individual efforts, others were just ignoring “the man behind” and talking about the tech. Changing my search to “woman behind”, I saw no comments disparaging the level of contribution.

EDIT: I’m also by no means justifying the vitriol in the black hole thread or the harassment. Just doing some legwork.