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18 facts about John Skeet

When discussing one or another interesting feature of the C # language · sooner or later it comes to famous representatives of the .NET community and one of the first on this list is Jon Skeet · guru ...

18 facts about John Skeet

    When discussing an interesting feature of the C # language, sooner or later we come up with the famous representatives of the .NET community and one of the first on this list is Jon Skeet, the guru of stackoverflow.com and the author of one of the most interesting books on the C # language - “C # in Depth .

    To talk about who John is and what he has done for the industry, it is enough to cite a few facts about him. Many have heard facts about Chuck Norris , such as “Chuck Norris counted ad infinitum. Twice ”or that“ Chuck Norris is the only person who beat the wall in tennis. ” But not everyone knows that there are similar facts about John Skeet (the fact of their existence already says a lot).


    So, here they are:

    1. John Skeet can divide by 0.

    2. If John Skeet's code does not compile, then the compiler apologizes for this.

    3. If you search “guru” in Google, then Google displays: “Perhaps you meant: John Skeet?”

    4. John Skeet wrote the last project entirely in MS Paint for the sake of interest.

    5. John Skeet does not follow coding standards; his code is the coding standard.

    6. Once John Skeet answered a question 42 seconds before he was asked.

    7. John Skeet is unchangeable. If something needs to change, then the whole universe is changing.

    8. John Skeet has already written a book on C # 6.0. Three years later, Anders Halesberg will read it to find out if the C # development team understood everything correctly.

    9. John Skeet is the only person in the top 100 SO users. The rest are bots written by John to somehow dispel between answers to questions.

    A. The Dining Philosophers wait for John Skeet to finish eating.

    B. When John Skeet points to null, null trembles with fear.

    C. If John Skeet publishes a duplicate on StackOverflow, then the original question closes as a duplicate .

    D. When invoking the John Skeet callback method, the CLR adds “please.”

    E. John Skeet does not use a debugger. There are no errors in his programs.

    F. CLR uses Just-In-Time compilation because each machine instruction must be approved by John Skeet.

    10. When John Skeet's program runs, the garbage collector rests. Its objects themselves know when to self-destruct.

    11. John Skeet's brain works in binary mode.

    12. Initially, StackOverflow.com was called JonSkeet.com and was renamed only due to the modesty of John Skeet.

    13. John Skeet has no performance issues. He makes the whole universe wait for his turn.

    14. John Skeet can execute an infinite loop in 1.55 seconds.

    15. John Skeet does not answer questions on StackOverflow, he looks at them and they themselves find the answer.
    16. The flows of John Skeet never sleep. They are waiting.

    17. If the Internet is a web, then John Skeet is a spider.

    18. John Skeet can do pair programming with himself.



    Most of the facts are taken from here , some are redone, some are left unchanged. Another fact that is not included in the list above, but which is worth mentioning, is the following. John, in fact, is not a “professional” .NET developer, since at work (in Google) he writes in Java, and C # is just his hobby;)

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