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Eric's technical prowessEric's technical prowessPosted Feb 22, 2003 7:49 UTC (Sat) by cypherpunks (guest, #1288)Parent article: The Art of Unix Programming Eric is an incompetent programmer. I know plenty of people at MIT who've worked with him. They said he couldn't code. He's spent the past many years with no real job, beyond working on free software. In that time, he's managed to get laughed off of the Linux Kernel Mailing list, failed to implement a large number of projects, and his sole causes for fame are rewriting Fetchmail (which is simple enough that I could have written it as a term project as an undergrad), and being the first to implement one particular (rather trivial) algorithm for spam filtering. His Cathedral and Bazaar, rather than describing what happens, is a very eloquent description of what some people would like to happen in some ideal world that doesn't exist. Isn't it a bit ironic that he, of all people, is writing a book on programming? Wouldn't we be better off reading it from someone who knows how to program, rather than just how to write convincingly? Why does LWN bother to give him coverage, and to interview him? Given the high quality of past coverage, and the high level of bullshit filters built into LWN's editors, seeing the article suprised me.
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