[MH15]

Something (unrelated) that surprised me here is that the author has two decades of posts on this blog, leading back to their first post about a new version of C# (https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2005/09/)

Personally as a younger software guy I had no idea that C# had type inference back in 2005- an interesting perspective shift!

[stefs]

jon skeet is somewhat famous for topping the stackoverflow leaderboards since the beginning of time

https://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all

[switch007]

- Users don’t mark Jon Skeet’s answers as accepted. The universe accepts them out of a sense of truth and justice.

- When Jon Skeet's code fails to compile, the compiler apologises.

- Jon Skeet does not use revision control software. None of his code has ever needed revision

[throwup238]

Replace “Jon Skeet” with “Fabrice Bellard” and you’ve got yourself a real meme.

[toolslive]

type inference in programming languages is more than 50 years old. ML had it in 1973.

[bossyTeacher]

jon skeet is one of the most famous programmers of all time. He might not be famous like Knuth is but he is everyday programmer famous.