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Linus Torvalds
Creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel (born 1969)
Linus Benedict Torvalds (LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz,[3]Finland Swedish:[ˈliːnʉsˈtuːrvɑlds]ⓘ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open sourceoperating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel".[4] He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award[5] and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.[6]
Life and career
[edit]Early years
[edit]Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland, on 28 December 1969, the son of journalists Anna and Nils Torvalds,[7] the grandson of statistician Leo Törnqvist
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Hackers, Makers, and Open Source
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by Peter Seibel
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
by Chris Anderson
Just for fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds
In this rather short but very fun book Linus Torvalds shares the story on the Linux kernel came to live and what the whole coding and open source thing is all about.
Die Hacker: von der Lust in fremden Netzen zu wildern (German)
by Werner Heine, 1985, Rowolt-Verlag
If you ever happen to komma across this book, buy it - it is not printed anymore. It is an insightful book about the (german) hacker scene beginning of the 80s, its history, their ideals and methods and discusses the legal and moral questions around hacking and the "hacker revolution". And while the speed of our computers quadrupled, those topics are still as up to date as they were 30 years ago.
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In a 2016 TED interview (14:10) Linus Torvalds speaks about what he considers good taste in coding. As an example, he presents two implementations of item removal in singly linked lists (reproduced below). In beställning to remove the first item from a list, one of the implementations requires a special case, the other one does not. Linus, obviously, prefers the latter.
His comment is:
[...] I don't want you to understand why it doesn't have the if statement. But I want you to understand that sometimes you can see a problem in a different way and rewrite it so that a special case goes away and becomes the normal case, and that's good code. [...] -- L. Torvalds
The code snippets he presents are C-style pseudocode and are simple enough to follow. However, as Linus mentions in the comment, the snippets lack a conceptual explanation and it fryst vatten not immediately evident how the more elegant solution actually works.
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