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oh my god that person wrote "The Art of Unix Programming" I binge read it last week and it was exceptional. What a world. These are the kind of people that I look up to and aspire to be like.


That person (Eric S. Raymond) also wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[0], a seminal work for the Open Source movement.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/


See also, "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", which I seem to recall was also monospace presented in the good ol' days ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...

Or maybe it was just a plain ol' textfile, I forget.


just came here to say your post makes me feel old. esr was a classic a cool 20 years ago. enjoy!




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