Programming language for children

[Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)]

On Sun, June 14, 2009 04:38, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
>
>> On Sat, June 13, 2009 20:13, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thanks for many ideas so far ... but who/what is ESR???
>>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
>>
>>
>> ESR is one of the few people that are so well know in the Open Source
>> community that they are only referenced with their initials or first
>> names. Other examples are RMS (Richard M. Stallman) and AST (Andrew S.
>> Tanenbaum,
>> author of Minix).
>>
>>
>
> Huh...I didn't know AST.
>
>
> And, of course, Linus need only have his first name mentioned, and
> everyone knows who we're talking about.

Without AST, there wouldn't have been Minix.
Without Minix, there wouldn't have been Linux, or at least not as we know
it today.

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Amedee