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

- 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

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

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

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.