To my mind the most important question is did Ferguson screw up, or was this deliberate?
If it’s the latter...
I'm a 40+ year software guy. I did a quick scan of the article at the link; and also followed one of the links there to a code example..
My own belief is that this is totally ineptitude.
ML/NJ
6 May: Breitbart: Who Would Buy a Used Computer Model from ‘Bonking Boffin’ Neil Ferguson?
by James Delingpole
Professor Neil Ferguson is currently the most reviled, scorned and mocked man in Britain.
Such a pity, though, that it’s for all the wrong reasons…
Being an arrogant, sexually incontinent, hypocrite is a fairly venial slip, after all, when compared to destroying the world’s fifth-largest economy – and with it the livelihoods, job prospects and prosperity of a nation of 65 million people...
Few men in recent British history, I would argue, have done more long-term damage to their country. It’s about time this was recognised by two important groups: by the politicians who, up till now, have been taking him seriously as their guru; and by the general populace, a significant portion of which has been terrified by his doom-laden prognostications into a hysteria out of all proportion to the nature of the actual threat posed by coronavirus.
Ferguson, let us not forget, has a long track record of failure...
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/06/would-buy-a-used-computer-model-from-bonking-boffin-neil-ferguson/
don’t forget his married lover, Antonia Staats, is an extreme gloBULL warming activist with Avaaz. their dream is to shut down western economies:
2012: Flickr: 350.org
#EndFossilFuelSubsidies London petition delivery. Jenny Rosenberg (Friends of the Earth EWNI), Antonia Staats (Avaaz), Marco Cadena (Push Europe), Emma Biermann (350.org), Parker Liautaud (young Arctic explorer).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/7393804452