Right now working In: Yahoo! Inc.
Was born: Godhavn/Qeqertarsuaq on Disco Island off the coast of Greenland in 1968
Written Books(As co-author): Programming PHP
Little Story:
Known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, the mod_info Apache module and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Awards and Honors:
Free Software Award
Website: http://www.lerdorf.com
Right now working In: Zope Corporation
Was born: .................................
Written Books: ..........................
Python Tutorial
Python Reference Manual
Python Library Reference
Python Essential Programming(As co-author)
Programming Parrot in a Nutshell(As co-author)
Little Story:
Guido van Rossum has a master's degree in math and computer science from the University of Amsterda. He is the creator of Python, an object-oriented scripting and prototyping language. In the eighties, at CWI in Amsterdam (a Dutch government research lab), Guido worked on the implementation teams of ABC (Python's procedural predecessor, designed by Lambert Meertens and others) and Amoeba (Andrew Tanenbaum and Sape Mullender's capability-based distributed operating system). In the nineties, while working on various multimedia projects at CWI, Python gradually took over his life, until he joined CNRI. There, Guido has had a big hand in the design and implementation of a prototype KOE, written entirely Python. With CNRI's support, Guido continues to be one of the driving forces behind the further development of the Python language.
Awards and Honors:
Free Software Foundation Award
Dr. Dobb's Journal 1999 Excellence in Programming Award
Website: http://www.python.org/~guido/
Right now working In: Microsoft Corporation
Was born: 1957
Written Books:
Little Story:
The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer. QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.
Awards and Honors:
Stewart Alsop Hindsight Award
Website: http://www.patersontech.com/
