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Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers
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"Ye can not serve God and mammon" (Matt. vi. 24).
Contents
Part 1: The beginning
Chapter 1: Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science
Chapter 2: Icebreakers: BSD project and beginning of Unix open source movement.
Part 2: Freedom of cloning as an ideological banner and the purpose of life of a new generation of anarchists
Part 3: Unknown Heroes of Open Source: Scripting Giants
Chapter 6: Scripting as the future of programming language development
Chapter 7: Shell Giants
Chapter 8: Larry Wall and Perl
Chapter 9: John K. Ousterhout and Tcl
Chapter 10: Guido van Rossum and Python
Chapter 11: PHP: an ugly duckling of open source.
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