Bag of Beans

The author of this article sent out some questions to a number of notable programmers, and has posted the responses that were sent back.

Starring:

Linus Torvalds – The Linux kernel author

Dave Thomas – Author of the „Pragmmatic Programmer”, „Programming Ruby” and other great books about programming. One can read his mainly programming-related thoughts here.

David Heinemeier Hansson – Author of the Rails Framework – the new hot web development framework. He has a weblog here.

Steve Yegge – Proably the least known from guys here, but also made one of the most interestings answers, has a popular weblog about programming. He is also the author of a game called „Wyvern”.

Peter Norvig – Research Director at Google, a well known Lisper, author of famous (in some circles at least) books about AI. See his homepage.

Guido Van Rossum – The Python language creator

James Gosling – The Java language creator

Tim Bray – One of the XML and Atom specifications author and a blogger too.

• Link (via reddit)

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