"Let’s try an experiment. Think of a project you use all day. Maybe it’s Rails or Python or something. Now, name 4 people on the core team without looking them up. I can’t do that for anything I use."
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From There Are No Famous Programmers, by Zed A. Shaw.
Man, sadly I agree: there are not famous programmers.
I can remember once, I was having a coffee with a good friend and I started to comment the new OpenBSD weblog (undeadly, back in the days!), made in C (werid) by one guy. I remember saying: “You may know that guy, he’s Daniel Hartmeier”.
That was an awkward moment. Even explaining he programmed OpenBSD’s Packet Filer (the first initial version, at least), it didn’t help at all.
So, if you’re a programmer, no matter how good you are. You’re not likely to be famous. Let’s face it.
