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Eric S. Raymond
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American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1957
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Cyber lexis
- The New Hacker's Dictionary
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- This is jargon file
- Libres enfants du savoir numérique
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Film & TV
Acting · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Eric S. Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author, and advocate for open-source software. He is best known for his influential essay and book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," which discusses open-source development practices.
Known for
- The Code — Himself2001
- Revolution OS — Himself - Author2001
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1957
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 496
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. His name became known within the hacker culture when he became the maintainer of the "Jargon File". After the 1997 publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", Raymond became, for a number of years, an informal representative of the open source movement. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Eric+S.+Raymond">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,871x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,781x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,745x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,638x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,173x
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Quotes
- “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.”
- “Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).”
- “When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.”
- “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”
- “There is another kind of skill not normally associated with software development which I think is as important as design cleverness to bazaar projects—and it may be more important. A bazaar project coordinator or leader must have good people and communications skills. … It is not a coincidence that Linus is a nice guy who makes people like him and want to help him.”
- “It is well understood in the community that project owners have a duty to pass projects to competent successors when they are no longer willing or able to invest needed time in development or maintenance work.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1957-12-04 ) December 4, 1957 (age 68) , Boston , Massachusetts , US
- Alma mater
- University of Pennsylvania
- Occupations
- Software developer , author
- Website
- www .catb .org /esr / esr .ibiblio .org
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.catb.org/~esr
- Image
- Eric Raymond 2019.jpg
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- Eric S. Raymond
- date of birth
- 1957-12-04
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- Eric S. Raymond
- official blog URL
- esr.ibiblio.org
- social media followers
- 4037
- name in native language
- Eric Steven Raymond
- curriculum vitae URL
- www.catb.org/esr/resume.html
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Article
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary.
Early life