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Old 19th February 2012
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Real Name: Anthony J. Bentley
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Don’t worry, I was only making a joke.

I guess I should answer the actual questions now…
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1- Most innovative programmer of the last century ?
I’m pretty fond of the Bell Labs crowd: Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie, Pike… I wouldn’t call them “innovative” so much as “inspiring.”

I really love that the books they write are thin. This is in contrast with, say, Knuth (who is a great writer, but one who writes and writes and writes and writes…)
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2- Most enjoyable piece of software you happen to be using ?
UTF‐8–aware nvi, and piped software in general (since that lets me edit stuff in UTF‐8–aware nvi!).
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3- Most important political figure of the new century ?
Ron Paul!
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4- Most interesting website ?
Too many to list, but I’m quite fond of link aggregation sites and blogs, despite the fact that they’re humongous timesinks…
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5- Most convincing (or persuading ! ) OS you ever used :
OpenBSD. Most convincing OS I’ve never used: Plan 9.
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6- Most convincing programming language -as to your personal needs- ?
Depends on the context. Assembly for concepts, C for general use, shell scripts for quick and dirty. I’ve been meaning to try out Go. Now that OpenBSD has rthreads in by default, I guess I have no excuse not to.
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7- Most detrimental human behavior ?
The idea that person/group/government A can (or should) force person B to do something through rule of law. Whether it’s US government policy or just the GPL…
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