Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and open-source software advocate. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as the The New Hacker's Dictionary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 December 1957
CountryUnited States of America
layers alternatives language
Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C
delusion software persistent
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
python hell standards
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
home talking years
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
giving able ethics
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
empires rebel hackers
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
polish prototype
Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
machines preference expensive
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
homework substitutes
Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.
internet defeat free-speech
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
winning select free-market
Free markets select for winning solutions.
firsts computer speed
The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
iphone shapes trouble
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.
class world sun
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.