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by lapnitnelav 2212 days ago
Laughs in Linus Torvald, Joe Armstrong and Guido van Rossum, just off the top of my head
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That's just it. There are individual luminaries where individuals can act. But as a full system, you just don't get good tech products out of Europe.

You misunderstand. It isn't that Europeans are dumb. They're just people so of course there are smart ones and dumb ones same as anywhere else. I'm not claiming some racist thing that Europeans aren't competent just like I'm not claiming Americans can't build subway.

Europe itself though isn't set up to make pioneering software products. Just like America can't efficiently build subway.