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Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers

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Portraits of Open Source Pioneers
Essays of Early History of Open Source

"Ye can not serve God and mammon" (Matt. vi. 24).

Contents

Preface

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

Chapter 3: Prince Kropotkin of Software: Richard Stallman and the War of Software Clones
Chapter 4: Grand Replicator aka Benevolent Dictator: A slightly skeptical unauthorized biography of Linus Torvalds and the chronicle of the first ten years of Linux
Chapter 5: Alan Cox and the art of making beta code work

Part 3: Unknown Heroes of Open Source: Scripting Giants

Chapter 6: Scripting as the future of programming language development
- Why Scripting Languages Represent the Most Important Part of Open Source Movement
- Scripting Languages as a Step in Evolution of Very high Level Languages
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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Portraits of Open Source Pioneers Essays of Early History of Open Source

Portraits of Open Source Pioneers
Essays of Early History of Open Source