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Oh my, did't know what was this all about. Just checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff This _
by lazydon 14y ago
Oh my, did't know what was this all about. Just checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff This _why guy is like Elvis/Garbo of the Ruby world.
Can somebody share more about some specific inspiring stuff _why did that makes him such an important figure in Ruby community:
Matz -> Ruby
DHH -> Rails
_why -> ?
- PLejeck 14y agoAs I understand it, _why -> The Ruby Community Plus the Poignant guide helps.
- slurry 14y agoWrote and illustrated a free online book, later published, which is accessible and somewhat fun/helpful if you don't know much about programming. Wrote some parsers/generators for various markup languages, at least one of which is now part of the Ruby standard library (after extensive rewrites). Kind of like ESR in that he's more accomplished as an advocate than a coder, but unlike ESR doesn't pretend otherwise, and especially unlike ESR had the good sense not to overstay his welcome.
- phillmv 14y agoHe single handedly made everyone in the Ruby community feel a little more special and fun and light hearted and quirky. Kind of the opposite of a brogrammer.
- jarin 14y agoI loved when he would post up interesting code snippets, but he would make them animated gifs so you actually had to type them in. And hoodwink.d was really fun while it lasted (it was kind of a secret club that you had to explore and figure out some simple tech problems to get into).
- dragonwriter 14y ago_why -> camping _why -> shoes _why -> a bunch of other stuff, some of which is now part of the Ruby standard library