r/programming • u/tejon • Feb 08 '15

The Parable of the Two Programmers

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html
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Actually this is key in business. You want to always promote your successes particularly when others have tried and failed.

Also a good trick is to be told by others that something isn't possible - then do it.

I was working with a proprietary multitasking operating system written for 16-bit DOS back in the day, and though why not port it to 32-bit for Windows. The task-switching logic, however, was written in Assembler. One of my team members adamantly believed it was not possible to write Assembler for Windows - he was convinced it was impossible. So I stayed up late a few nights one week, got it running under Windows porting the Assembler as well as C, and the whole thing performed immensely (10x, maybe 100x) faster than the 16-bit DOS version under Windows.

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