Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers

I believe that scripting languages represent the most important branch of open source development. First of all the key assumption behind open source is that the source of the program should be readable and modifiable. This is simply not true for a complex 10K lines C or C++ program. So expressiveness of the language and its level are very important factors, that are commonly overlooked. I strongly believe that these languages will be mainstream industrial languages in the coming years. We will discuss only five of them: Perl, TCL, Python, Javascript and PHP. (chapter 6)

john k. ousterhout: 'scripting: higher level programming for the 21st century'

The feedback that you get—in terms of bug reports or new ideas or just pushback on your ideas—is really what drives things. (sam leffler)

"In this sense, one is no more owner of one's glory, nobility or credit [toward society] than he (sic) is of his limbs, which, as living things, he cannot relinquish to others. He therefore has nothing to worry regarding expropriation for these values, the most important of all, and the most difficult to nationalise."(maurizio lazzarato)

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i thought so: worked/works together with antonio negri und paolo virno. en barna on the 12th. let's hear.