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• Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

  Eric S. Raymond

  Alternatives, Layers, Language

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.326, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

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  Different, Machines, Faces

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

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  Communication, Development, Coercion

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.54, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

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  Stupid, Independent, Skin Color

  "What good is IQ?" by Eric S. Raymond, esr.ibiblio.org. November 17, 2003.

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• A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

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  Security Systems, Secret, Pseudo

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.46, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

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  Cat, Hackers

  Eric S. Raymond (1996). “The New Hacker's Dictionary”, p.530, MIT Press

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• The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

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  Memories, Management, Problem

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

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  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

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  Language, Implementation

  "What a Modern Collaboration Toolkit Looks Like". Emacs-devel thread, lists.gnu.org. December 30, 2007.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

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  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

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  Looks, Information, Firsts

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• Free markets select for winning solutions.

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  Winning, Select, Free Market

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• A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

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  Giving, Able, Ethics

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.12, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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