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The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers
- vog 13y agoIn his blog the list's maintainer explains why he has mostly stopped maintaining this list. [1] However, I think this list has a high value from a historical point of view. If that list would be added to a collaborative platform like Wikipedia or GitHub, maybe some more people (or even the listes persons themselves) would be able to incorporate corrections and/or do some research on the unclear facts (maked with "?" in the list). A prerequisite would be to put this list under a free license, maybe some Open Data license, a Creative Commons license or just Public Domain. In that case, the author wouldn't even have to do offer it to Wikipedia or GitHub himself - anybody would have the permission to do that. Also, this could encourage people to write a parser for that regular plain text format, or even convert it to a format more usable for data analysis and/or auto-merging with other kinds of lists (e.g. some XML or JSON format, maybe there's already a open standard format for that kind of information). Then, data journalists could pick up that list more easily. [1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/102.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/102.html