Why am I not surprised? All my favorites in there thought a good mathematical background was helpful, if not essential.

Linus, Norvig and Gosling are hackers. GvR and Stroustrup are professionals. Dunno about Bray and Thomas. Yegge and Hansson can has cheezburger.

I realized that this was from long long ago only when I got to the part where Stevey said he liked Java.

Nevertheless a good informative read.

Emacs ftw.