Eric Steven Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond (born 1957), author of "Cathedrals and Markets", " The maintainer of "New Hacker Dictionary" and a famous hacker. As the main compiler and maintainer of "The New Hacker Dictionary", Raymond has long been considered a historian and anthropologist of hacker culture. But after 1997, Raymond became widely recognized as one of the key leaders of the open source movement and the most publicly known (and controversial) hacker.

Chinese name: Eric Steven Raymond

Foreign name: Eric Steven Raymond

Nationality: United States

Birthplace: United States Boston, Massachusetts

Date of birth: 1957

Occupation: Writer and weblogger

Representative work: "The New Hacker Dictionary"

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Raymond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 1957. He traveled around the world with his parents since he was a child. He once lived on three continents on the earth and had forgotten two of them before he was 13 years old. language. In 1971, he returned to Pennsylvania, USA, and began to be exposed to hacker culture in 1976. In 1982, he completed his first open source software project.

He uses his initials, ESR, as his hacker code name.

Achievements and Honors

Raymond manages more than 30 open source software and more than 10 major FAQs. He is also an important author and weblogger. He is one of the main creators of the INTERCAL programming language and has also contributed to the development of the EMACS editor. Raymond is also the author of the Fetchmail program. Recently he also wrote a setup program originally used for Linux kernel setup.

Raymond's famous saying, "Givenenough eyeballs, allbugsareshallow" (Givenenougheyeballs,allbugsareshallow), has a great influence on the open source movement, which is also the famous Linus law.