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
becoming clear early effort ending ten unix
Worse, by the early 1990s it was becoming clear that ten years of effort to commercialize proprietary Unix was ending in failure.
learning bugs problem
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).
programming release customers
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
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
polish prototype
Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
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.
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.
sugar language programming
When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.