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Quote by John Bardeen

“Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations for further developments. The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. Further, science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.”

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John Bardeen

John Bardeen was an American physicist known for his contributions to semiconductor physics and superconductor theory. In 1947, he, along with Walter Brattain and William Shockley, invented the transistor, which revolutionized the field of electronic engineering. Bardeen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for his work on superconductor theory. more

“In languages with a garbage collector (GC), the GC keeps track and cleans up memory that isn’t being used anymore, and we don’t need to think about it. Without a GC, it’s our responsibility to identify when memory is no longer being used and call code to explicitly return it, just as we did to request it. Doing this correctly has historically been a difficult programming problem. If we forget, we’ll waste memory. If we do it too early, we’ll have an invalid variable. If we do it twice, that’s a bug too. We need to pair exactly one allocate with exactly one free. Rust takes a different path: the memory is automatically returned once the variable that owns it goes out of scope.”

Memory Programming Scope Programming Languages

Book:The Rust Programming Language

Source: The Rust Programming Language

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Progress Landscape Scope Picasso

Book:Picasso

Source: Picasso

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Opportunity Perspective Scope Paradigm See Seek Paradigm Shift Future Self Close The Gap

Author:Richie Norton

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