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Who is Steve Yegge? (Score:2)

by merlyn (47)
Given that he has no wikipedia entry, who is he, and why should I be excited that he has a blog?
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- Re:Who is Steve Yegge? (Score:1)
  
  by btilly (5037)
  
  He's a guy who worked at Amazon (he moved on to a startup), tries to learn stuff, and got in the habit of expressing his opinions over wine. A lot of people like his opinions, or at least find them worth reading.
  
  The list of people who think they are interesting includes me, Aristotle, and Dominus.
  
  For the record, I find myself in agreement with his basic complaints about Perl (if not about Larry Wall). If I cared more about programming language aesthetics, I'd have left Perl long ago because of this. But
  - Re:Who is Steve Yegge? (Score:1)
    
    by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2006.03.19 2:39 (#46649) Homepage Journal
    
    PPS. (getting long, I know):
    
    For whomever these names are known figures, the list of people who find his writings interesting further includes Ryan Tomayko, Bill de hÓra, Tim Bray and Sam Ruby.
    
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