Adding Modules to C in 10 Lines of Code

[mee6]

On Sunday, 5 June 2022 at 22:41:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/5/2022 7:26 AM, mee6 wrote:
>> On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 19:26:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 6/4/2022 5:29 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>> I guess going around the horn is a synonym for lets pretend 
>>>> there wasn't prior art and keep arguing D did it first, as 
>>>> usual.
>>>
>>> Writing a paper is not doing it first.
>> 
>> Why do you care so much about being "first"? Would you not 
>> have implemented and made a presentation about it if you 
>> didn't think it was the first implementation?
>
> Because it's fun to be first!

How's it fun to be first? Why is it that what other people are 
doing, with no connection to you, reduces the 'fun' you have? Are 
you having fun trying to dismiss every implementation of modules 
in C so you can be "first"?