Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he's no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.

[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure Nedry was the engineer. Arnold was systems administrator / operator. Neither were computer scientists.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nedry was literally a computer scientist and systems designer / programmer from Cambridge. Arnold was a theme park engineer (designing rides and control systems; some programming involved but a whole different paradigm than developing large systems).

Source: Have read the novel 50+ times.

[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

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