About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Programming language designers, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, Anders Hejlsberg, Niklaus Wirth, Stephen Wolfram, Grace Hopper, Ole-Johan Dahl, Dennis Ritchie, Seymour Papert, Kristen Nygaard, Bjarne Stroustrup, Brian Kernighan, James Gosling, Konrad Zuse, Larry Wall, John Backus, Alan Kay, Peter Naur, Abstract syntax, Yukihiro Matsumoto, John Ousterhout, Gerald Jay Sussman, Robin Milner, Alfred Aho, Paul Graham, Kenneth E. Iverson, Richard Stallman, Anthony James Barr, John McCarthy, Carl Sassenrath, Christopher Strachey, John Bridges, Guido van Rossum, Hal Abelson, Mike Cowlishaw, John George Kemeny, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Friedrich L. Bauer, Barbara Jane Liskov, Bertrand Meyer, Memory ordering, David J. Farber, Jacob T. Schwartz, Jean Ichbiah, Charles H. Moore, Alan Perlis, Roger Hui, Ralph Griswold, Aad van Wijngaarden, Brad Cox, Man or boy test, Rasmus Lerdorf, Jean E. Sammet, David Turner, Stephen R. Bourne, Thomas Eugene Kurtz, Jensen's Device, Peter J. Weinberger, Alain Colmerauer, Xavier Leroy, Walter Bright, Andy Wellings, David H. Munro, Arthur Whitney, Martin Richards, Roberto Ierusalimschy, Richard Merrill, Waterbed theory. Excerpt: Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for fre...
