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[Acronym] for __E__ric __S__. __R__aymond.
-"The community has a tradition of tri-letterizing its heroes —
I suppose that began with Stallman, already a hero when I was a fledgling progammer in the early 1980s, who was generally known as [RMS] even then. LinusTorvalds is just ‘
Linus’
, perhaps because (unlike ‘
Richard’
or ‘
Eric’
) one can refer to him by simply first name with very little risk of aliasing problems.
+"The community has a tradition of tri-letterizing its heroes -
I suppose that began with Stallman, already a hero when I was a fledgling progammer in the early 1980s, who was generally known as [RMS] even then. LinusTorvalds is just "
Linus"
, perhaps because (unlike "
Richard"
or "
Eric"
) one can refer to him by simply first name with very little risk of aliasing problems.
-I think I started to be routinely triletterized into ‘
ESR’
around 1998 on Slashdot; that was a few months after the fame thing started to kick in seriously. It's at best a mixed blessing. Fame is tactically useful, but the pressures and expectations that go with it can be nasty stuff."
+I think I started to be routinely triletterized into "
ESR"
around 1998 on Slashdot; that was a few months after the fame thing started to kick in seriously. It's at best a mixed blessing. Fame is tactically useful, but the pressures and expectations that go with it can be nasty stuff."
-- EricRaymond
