Thursday, August 26

What becomes a programmer most?

What do Richard Stallman, James Gosling, Charles Simonyi and Bill Joy have in common?

Famous hackers all, yes, but oddly, their initial fame came from text editors: (Teco) Emacs, (Unix) Emacs, Bravo and Vi, respectively.

Of course, Cap'n Crunch wrote EasyWriter, but he was famous for other things first.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you are interested in the technical underpinnings of Emacs, check Craig Finseth's book out:

http://www.finseth.com/~fin/craft/

Anonymous said...

Interesting Marc Andreessen worked on Epoch (Emacs for X, what a concept!) before Mosaic.