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By: Magnus

Magnus — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:07:07 +0000

Good questions and great answers! Thanks fo doing this.

By: maru

maru — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:07:57 +0000

“Steve Yegge:
Favorite anime OSTs: Last Exile, Haibane Renmei”

Yay! Excellent taste, Steve. Last Exile (especially) and Haibane Renmei have some of the best OSTs out there, up there with great ones like FLCL or Ghost in the Shell or Cowboy Bebop.

(But boo on Tim Bray. I’m already reading a blog, I don’t want to hunt down a new one, and then hunt down within that one your musical tastes. That question didn’t require a very long answer.)

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:07:34 +0000

I can’t believe you got all these answers.. well done!

By: gaschj

gaschj — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:07:18 +0000

Sir,
I have a question for you: Is english becomming the language of interaction among those working in information technology?
Jim

By: Julio Nobrega

Julio Nobrega — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:07:22 +0000

Are these real? :)

Thanks for the awesome post.

By: NC

NC — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:07:35 +0000

That was an excellent interview….

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:07:19 +0000

Good interview. That’s a pretty good list of books I might look into.

“Linus Torvalds:

I’m actually not very much into music, but when I listen to it, I tend to listen to various classic-rockish things, ranging from Pink Floyd to the Beatles to Queen and The Who.”

Linus Torvalds is the man!

By: fad

fad — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:07:21 +0000

That’s just awesome. I can’t believe no one before had this idea. I will bookmark this and study it excessively later´.

By: fdfd

fdfd — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:07:01 +0000

Wow, this is a great interview. Is it real?

By: kk

kk — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:07:39 +0000

Wonderful, Thanks.

By: sztywny

sztywny — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:07:55 +0000

Of course it’s real, ask Linus ;)

By: Ahramd Thorasine

Ahramd Thorasine — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:07:44 +0000

Why didn’t any of these people discuss the “metaverse”?

By: Linus

Linus — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:07:34 +0000

Of course its real
Linus

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Carnal Reason — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:07:06 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:07:01 +0000

Guido’s a moron.

By: Ravi Shakya

Ravi Shakya — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:07:32 +0000

Great Read..interesting

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By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:07:14 +0000

“Is english becomming the language of interaction among those working in information technology?”

yes, and it has been; according to Linus himself- “through Linux, I’ve been communicating professionally exclusively in English for the last ten years. In fact my English is stronger than my Finnish…”
http://www.enrus.ru/english/public_5.html

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:07:17 +0000

If you say all comments need to be in English, why don’t you use English for your dates/categories/months/etc here on the blog. There’s nothing wrong with Polish, of course, but since you want all comments in English…

BTW, Great interview, you should do more of them!

By: Christoph Wagner

Christoph Wagner — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:07:07 +0000

“Stardust” - Neil Gaiman

Wow, while everything was interesting, that was the most useful information for me;)
I love Gaiman!

By: sztywny

sztywny — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:07:35 +0000

Before the interview this was a completely Polish weblog, so most page elements are in Polish, I didn’t yet decided what I will do with this. I want only comments in English here, because there is a separete entry with the interview translated to Polish, where my Polish folks can comment…

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By: Rohan Dhruva

Rohan Dhruva — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:07:51 +0000

GREAT INTERVIEW(s). Keep it up !! And i just loved Guido’s answer -

“Your questions are rather general and hard to answer. :-) I guess being able to cook an egg for breakfast is invaluable.”

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By: Hiten Parmar

Hiten Parmar — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:07:48 +0000

awesome interview! most interesting is the bit -

Steve Yegge: Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

and just below…is Linus saying…

Linus: but I’ve obviously also written my own version control system (git), and the text editor I use (micro-emacs) I’ve ended up customizing and extending upon too

which confirms Linus really is the _man_ !

Pity that Bill G didn’t figure in your list :-(

By: e

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:07:11 +0000

The concise answers from Guido provide the clear truth to why Python is king.

period.

Look at the rest of the utter gibberish. Learning to program from a classroom? Give me a break. This is second generation nonsense.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:07:54 +0000

Norvig needs to get off his high chair and talk more. Not impressed.

By: Gravis

Gravis — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:07:14 +0000

I find the GIMP invaluable, and also maddeningly unintuitive. I’ve been using it for years and can still barely do anything with it. - Steve Yegge

it’s sooooooo true.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:07:37 +0000

Ha!Linus wrote a lot for the questions….

By: niyue

niyue — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:07:30 +0000

Great post, I’m looking foward to the rest

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By: Janson

Janson — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:07:49 +0000

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Alexander Chard — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:07:40 +0000

Top, top article. well done!

By: fdfd

fdfd — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:07:41 +0000

What’s up with Peter Norwig with all those shitty answers?

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By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:07:29 +0000

This was a great read! Thanks for publishing it.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:07:43 +0000

Steve Yegge is an ignoramus. “Nothing comes close to MySQL?” Get a fucking clue…

I can’t believe DHH likes such lame music.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:07:48 +0000

fdfd - Peter Norvig is an intellectually dishonest dickhead.

By: Carlitos

Carlitos — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:07:57 +0000

If this thing is not real you’re very smart and at least made me think and laugh a lot! Thank you anyway!

The funniest quote: “Initially, I was self-taught. I got my first programming job before I went to college. But I’m glad I did. I had a lot of fun. I kept going until I had a PhD.”

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:07:08 +0000

Guido Van Rossum
Plillip Glass is great, Naqoquatsi and the series is unbelieveable.

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:07:51 +0000

“For example, I personally believe that „Visual Basic” did more for programming than „Object-Oriented Languages” did.” - Linus Torvalds

**** Linus Torvalds…. I’m a linux fan, but that’s just crap.

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By: David

David — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:07:03 +0000

@sztywny You’re right. I only read this post so I didn’t realise the entire site was in Polish. My bad. Keep up the good work man.

Here’s another idea, how about making it bilingual?

By: sztywny

sztywny — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:07:19 +0000

After this entry generated more visits in two days than I’ve had in previous three months I’m seriously considering it, Daivd :D I just need to improve my English skills a bit first…

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Thanks for taking the time to come up with the questions and organizing the answers. Those are mostly the same questions I would probaby ask. As a personal preference, I tended to like the answers from James Gosling and Dave Thomas the best as I found them more insightful, but they were all great answers from everyone else too!

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By: anjan bacchu

anjan bacchu — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:08:51 +0000

hi there,

nice job. I’m glad that you got all the replies. More so that you posted ‘em.

Tim Bray : -1 on your music reply. I tried searching for music on his site and got more than 300 entries in the response
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=music&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google%2BSearch&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=tbray.org

the reason that Joel Spolsky keeps trashing java was lost on me. But his latest post and the fact that Steve and Peter both emphasize on
SICP (mitpress.mit.edu/* sicp*/) which uses LISP makes things clearer now!

It would be nice to ask the same questions to guys like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniack, Anders Hejlberg — I understand that these guys don’t have a popular blog. Do any of the readers here have any interest in these guys ?

BR,
~A

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By: panzi

panzi — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:08:57 +0000

@OST:
The Last Exile OST is a very good soundtrack. But I think a similar but much better soundtrack is (the new) Battlestar Galactica OST! Mini-Sieries and Season 1. (I don’t have teh OST of Season 2. Is it out yet?)

Futher (partially) superb sountracks are: Schlafes Bruder, Vanilla Sky, The Fifth Element, Orlando, Great Expectations and the title theme of Conan: The Riddle of Steel (it’s used in a Zelda comercial. I know it from there). Some of these movies are good, too. But othrs aren’t.

And game sountracks:
In my opinion Chrono Trigger and Zelda (Ocarina of Time) have very good soundtracks. The remixes of thouse are great, too: http://ocremix.org

@Other music:
“Queen and The Who”
Yes they are great. I also like New Model Army, The Dresden Dolls, The White Stripes, Tori Amos, Björk, The Smiths (and Morrisey) and a bit Violent Femmes, Green Day, U2, Led Zepplin etc.

Sorry if thats a bit off topic. :)

By: Anonymous

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Excellent idea. We can learn lot of good stuff from these great programmers. I did already.

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By: halukag

halukag — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:08:36 +0000

For the commentator__>> Guido’s a moron >>
Guido Van Rossum created the language more then a decade ago that is now being used by the Google & NASA engineers, besides everyone else, and also influenced the creation of Ruby. Calling him a moron does nothing but prove your level of intelligence…

Otherwise, great interview and thanks a lot for sharing it with everyone…

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:08:23 +0000

Wow! It seems Ruby and Emacs are da thing to learn. Yeah. Thanks!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:08:57 +0000

good interviews, well done mate.

but only one bit of it made me laugh out loud……Linus still using pine…..jezzzzzzzz :-))

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I like Guido. Nice, sarcastic european humor! :-)

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mi — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:08:55 +0000

different brain strucure. Wow… who owns that ? :)

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By: Connelly Barnes

Connelly Barnes — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:08:41 +0000

What, none of the great hackers mentioned Microsoft .NET? Haha, just joking. Thanks for the cool interview. James Gosling sure stuck out: Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, NetBeans!, Emacs… I’m surprised that any of these hackers first learned programming in school. And some of them read nonfiction books too. Sort of tones down my image of the stereotypical hacker. But not by much.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:08:52 +0000

great idea!

IMHO you miss Rob Pike r@google.com http://labs.google.com/people/r/
a true innovator ( http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/ , http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/plumb.html , http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf ), co-author of the very recommended “The Practice Of Programming” ( http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThePracticeOfProgramming ).

here it is a list for a next round of interviews:
http://java.sys-con.com/read/47349.htm

By: sztywny

sztywny — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:08:49 +0000

Alessandro - from the java.sys-con.com list I e-mailed Martin Fowler (he responded he hasn’t got enough time) and Roy Fielding (didn’t respond at all). There is a lot of people there I actually forgotten…

Well, Alan Turing would be certainly worth interviewing…

Btw, I got an answer from Bjarne Stroustrup recently, just added it here…

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Max Ischenko’ blog » Blog Archive » 1 top reason to blog for a programmer — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:08:39 +0000

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By: whatever

whatever — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:08:22 +0000

That Guido boy really comes up as a great schmuck…

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:08:04 +0000

may I suggest you to ask Joel Spolsky too? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
He was in the MS Excel team, a team that write their own C compiler!
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joelonsoftware.com%2Farticles%2Ffog0000000007.html

By: sztywny

sztywny — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:08:18 +0000

I e-mailed Joel AFAIR, but he didn’t respond.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:08:22 +0000

Ok Stiff, I suggest you another guy: Alex Martelli, a Pythonian:
alexit@gmail.com http://www.aleax.it/
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/918

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LT People » Blog Archive » Интервью с великими программистами — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:08:35 +0000

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Crónicas de Zeitan :: Linux Loves VB :: August :: 2006 — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:08:38 +0000

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By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:08:04 +0000

Wonder which distro Linus uses?

By: tte

tte — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:08:33 +0000

>>I think it will mostly obsolete all other client-side toolkits: GTK, Java >>Swing/SWT, Qt, and of course all the platform-specific ones like >>Cocoa and Win32/MFC/etc

rotf, stfu

By: erwin

erwin — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:08:15 +0000

Great questions with great answers from great people.

By: Phlash

Phlash — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:08:04 +0000

Superb idea Stiff, you’ve made my day!

You might like to know that the latest Verity Stob column in The Register (http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/08/08/cplusplus_loops/) mentions Linus and links to this blog page, so expect a few more hits…

I was surprised by some of the answers, while others seem to show a pattern that reflects the age of the responder - especially those Emacs addicts :)

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By: Linux Platense » Linus Torvalds, fan de Visual Basic

Linux Platense » Linus Torvalds, fan de Visual Basic — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:08:06 +0000

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By: software guy

software guy — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:08:27 +0000

Good interview. It was worth the read and you did a great job with the questions.

By: GF

GF — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:08:41 +0000

Somewhere up above, Connelly Barnes writes:

[…]James Gosling sure stuck out: Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, Emacs, NetBeans!, Emacs…[…]

Maybe it should be pointed out that Gosling wrote the first version of EMACs to run under Unix back in 1981. Richard Stallman used parts of his code when he came up with the first version of GNU Emacs.

So maybe Goslings answer was different because he’s thinking of other things these days.

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By: Tecno4all

Tecno4all — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:08:49 +0000

Rumores de Linus y Visual Basic

Hay corriendo por el web una noticia basada en un comentario de Linus torvalds que sacado de su contexto parece decir: A Linus le gusta Visual Basic.
Esto fue lo que dijo Linus:
For example, I personally believe that Visual Basic did more for progr…

By: Patrick Chan

Patrick Chan — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:08:24 +0000

Just wondering if you’ll expand the list at some point — for e.g., perhaps ask Jamie Zawinski or Larry Wall or RMS? (Of course, assuming you haven’t already asked them and they just did not respond.)

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By: keith

keith — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:08:50 +0000

Great article! Very interesting and insightful.

I did think someone might have mentioned The Mythical Man Month as a computer related book though.

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By: Stephan

Stephan — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:10:53 +0000

Thank you Steve! Fantastic!

By: LOROVSKII ANONIZMUS

LOROVSKII ANONIZMUS — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:10:31 +0000

All these people, бля, are great mans!
And I found that most important programming skill is individualityнах!

By: Wade

Wade — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:10:39 +0000

Thanks - an excellent read.

By: probert100

probert100 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:10:51 +0000

Very good interview.
Thanks for doing this.

Pozdrawia Robert

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Way of the Geek - Your One Stop Geek Shop » Questions for the Greats — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:10:30 +0000

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By: lalala

lalala — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:10:45 +0000

You forgot Larry Wall and Richard Stallman, two of the most important hackers of all time.

By: Dude

Dude — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:10:52 +0000

Thanks for posting this! Definitely a great idea and pretty well executed. Keep ‘em coming, btw. ;)

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By: ud

ud — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:10:47 +0000

Awesome Interview. It made my day. I was looking for these kinda information in order to get inspired as well as know which direction should I head. It was clever of you to come up with the idea of interviewing them.

Cool!!! ;-)

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By: fragles

fragles — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:10:04 +0000

Great job!!! Will you include more interviews in the future? Are you planning to write a book?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:10:11 +0000

Great questions and answers (in most cases). Glad you took the time to query them and post the results.

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By: Phil Newton

Phil Newton — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:10:10 +0000

Excellent interviews, and some insightful answers. Thanks for sharing them!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:10:22 +0000

Did you forget about Richard Stallman?

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blsonne — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:10:39 +0000

Dude, your English was fine! Nothing to worry about, and anyone that bugs you about should shut up and try to speak to you in *your* language, and then see how well they do :)

By: Sjan Evardsson - stuff that w0rks

Sjan Evardsson - stuff that w0rks — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:10:55 +0000

http://www.evardsson.com/top/development/interviews.html
Interview with some of the biggest

While there are a good deal of serious answers about tools, platforms, methods, skills and so forth, the gem that made me chuckle was the response from Guido Van Rossum to the question “What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses?”:

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By: Tomasz Kłosiński, alienjr

Tomasz Kłosiński, alienjr — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:10:56 +0000

Drogi Jarku!
Great job!
This is really awesome.
I’d never expect that they read something else than technology stuff or even listen to music. ;-P

I hope you don’t rest on one’s laurels and you prepare another interviews.

Cheers,
alienjr

PS. Sorry for my bad english.

By: C. Rebert

C. Rebert — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:10:34 +0000

“If you had three months to learn one relatively new technology, which one would You choose?”
GvR: Snowboarding

Oh God that’s so funny in a surreal / programmer humor sort of way. :-)