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                                   April 8, 2007

Recent decades have seen the
emergence of a new generation
of essayist programmers, who
practice what I suspect should                 COMPUTER_SCIENCE_PROOF
be called "computer philosophy"
(as opposed to "computer science"):

   Richard Stallman        SIDES_OF_THE_COIN
                   
   Paul Graham             PAUL_GRAHAM

   Phillip Greenspun

   Steve Yegge

   and

   Eric S. Raymond

                    ...who inspired a
                    lot of this work,
                    as far as I can tell.

   And let's include 
                     
      Larry Wall 
                 
   in this list, since
   he's caused the          
   rest of them so          THE_PERL_AFFAIR
   much consternation.
   
                 
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